Scheduling a PDF output using cfdocument

Has anyone come up with a way to have a page save a
pdf/flashpaper file of a webpage at a certain time during the day
without someone accessing the site. I have an electronic time sheet
that I want to save a copy of at the end of the day but want to
have this happen without anyone having to access the page. Can this
be done?

You can schedule jobs with either cfschedule or on the admin
page.

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Hello,
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Help with PDF creation using CFDOCUMENT / iText

Hi everyone,
Finally made the jump to CF7 after sticking with 5 for way
too long and now have an urgent need to generate PDF.
<cfdocument> seems to do better than anything else at
converting HTML styled with CSS, but falls short in a few
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I hope it is because my alternative approach is to go down
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as alternative solution you might check activepdf products.
www.activepdf.com
cheers
kim

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http://awe.st/fX6HEy
PDF of presentation notes and stack trace options from Charlie Arehart.
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4tun8mom wrote:
Now, the problem is that, while the client likes this, they don't like that the headers and footers are grayed out and the colors are not as vibrant in Word as the program part I created and saved as a PDF.
They're being a bit impractical in their complaints, in fact they remind me of my Dad! The final product is still fine.
4tun8mom wrote:
They also don't like that if we keep this as a Word document, all the text is editable.
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Hint:
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biography into a pdf. This is great, because we no longer have to
manually create bios, as they are now all dynamically generated.
The problem I have now is that we want to be able to select
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and ensure that one persons bio doesn't continue on the page with
anothers.
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H All,
DB:11.1.0.7
Oracle Apps:12.1.1
O/S:Linux Red Hat 86x64
We are getting right hand side characters truncated for PDF output when Conc Prog is run through EBS.This is the problem.
But while saving the file on dektop and printing both left and right hand side characters gets printed well within the margin area.
What could be the problem here please?Could anyone please share the resolution.
Page size used is: 81/2 x 11 - Letter.
Thanks for your time!

We are getting right hand side characters truncated for PDF output when Conc Prog is run through EBS.This is the problem.Is it a seeded or custom concurrent program? Does this happen to all requests or specific ones only?
But while saving the file on dektop and printing both left and right hand side characters gets printed well within the margin area.What if you print the same file from the server using the lp command?
What could be the problem here please?Could anyone please share the resolution.
Page size used is: 81/2 x 11 - Letter.What is the printer type/style?
Have you tried different printer?
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How to use cfdocument create a PDF file and save the file in server?

Hi,
I want to use cfdocument to create a PDF file and save it in
the server for other people to download,can you give me a idea how
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<cfdocument format = "PDF" pagetype="A4"
orientation="portrait">
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Hi
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