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PDF features

Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software solves these and other problems with a full range of features that leverage PDF documents and forms. ColdFusion 8 applications can generate and interact with PDF files for a printable, portable way to intelligently capture and share information.

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Creating PDF files

ColdFusion 8 allows you to transform existing HTML content dynamically into Adobe PDF to produce print-quality output, including headers and footers, multiple page sizes, orientations, the ability to save output to disk or e-mail, and more. Your PDF documents can now also include bookmarks and can contain embedded existing PDF forms.

Working with existing PDF documents

ColdFusion 8 adds new functionality that allows programmatic control over existing PDF documents. With one new tag, you can combine multiple separate PDF documents into one PDF package, remove pages from a PDF file, add watermarks, password-protect and encrypt a PDF document, generate thumbnails of PDF pages, and more.

PDF forms

ColdFusion 8 allows you to incorporate interactive PDF forms in your applications by working with existing Adobe Acrobat® forms (PDF forms created with Acrobat 6.0 or earlier) and Adobe LiveCycle® forms (PDF forms created with Adobe LiveCycle Designer). You can extract data submitted from a PDF form, populate form fields from an XML data file, database, or other source of ColdFusion data, and embed PDF forms in PDF documents created in ColdFusion. Users can now work with your PDF forms offline, e-mail them, or save them to the desktop for later use, and pass the data back to your application when convenient — providing a portable way to capture and share information in your Internet applications.

Server-side printing

ColdFusion 8 can now work with PDF documents in automated batch printing jobs. The new server-side printing feature allows you to collate PDF documents and print them to any network connected printer.