Chandan Kumar (Bangalore, India)

Chandan is part of the core development team of ColdFusion for last two years and has been instrumental in building PDF manipulation features with cfpdf tag, server monitoring, cffeed and looks after several others including cfprint. Currently he is working on adding some very exciting features to ColdFusion language for Centaur. He is a graduate from Indian Institute of Technology.

Worries, woes and wonders of ColdFusion 8 PDF handling

We've all expected it to happen - the "merger" introduced a whole set of new PDF functionalities in ColdFusion. Printing and Reporting have also improved and produce very reasonable results in most of developer's scenarios. This session will provide a brief overview on different ways to deal with PDF in CF 8 and then dive into how to use CFPDF and CFPDFFORM. You can be sure that we're also going to cover the edge cases where it's getting a bit tricky to achieve the expected results. More...