Output to pdf

I was worried that may be the case. The document was first created in Excel and then saved as an html page.

Oh well... I think I may have to start from scratch without styles.

EnergyFed wrote:
> I've found that CSS works quite well in a PDF file. However in order to make
> it output correctly, you have to put CSS inside all of the <cfdocumentitem>
> tags on the page. Otherwise if you just add the CSS in the top part of the
> <cfdocument format="pdf">, CF seems to be selective on which styles it wants to
> apply.
>

A lot of CSS works in the manner you want, if you are just styling text,
font and color type properties.

Things can start to get funky when you start to style, position and
display type properties. Some of these don't make a lot of sense in
relation to printing, but they may be integral to what makes a web page
what it is when displayed on the screen.

I've found that CSS works quite well in a PDF file. However in order to make it output correctly, you have to put CSS inside all of the <cfdocumentitem> tags on the page. Otherwise if you just add the CSS in the top part of the <cfdocument format="pdf">, CF seems to be selective on which styles it wants to apply.

There are tricks to make cfdocument work a bit better with some CSS but
it is probably not going to be perfect if you have complex styling going on.

I am going to answer your question with a question of my own. Does your
CSS heavy web page look exactly the same in every browser currently on
the market including all past versions of them?

The point of that question, is that when users request something like "I
want a printout of this page to look exactly like it is on the screen."
Their assumption is how it looks on their screen is how it looks on
everybody's screen. As developers we should know that is not true. Web
pages can look radically different based on what browser, computer,
operating system and monitor combination it is viewed with. Throw in
printers and printer drivers into that mix just makes an even larger
astronomical number of possible combinations.

To finally advise you on your original question. If a user wants a
print out of exactly what they are looking at, the best source is a tool
that uses their browser rendering engine and spits it out to their
printer. For my Firefox browser I found this to be a very capable tool
for doing just that: Screengrab
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1146.

<cfdocument format="pdf">


all style works inside <cfdocument format="pdf">