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@Sandhya231275905kpl , l shall say it again: all of these attempts (with an HTML table, cfheader with Word Content-Disposition, styles, etc.) will NOT produce the display you want. It is well-nigh impossible for the margins that you set in HTML to carry over to MS Word.
Imagine you wish to frame a picture. Obviously, the dimensions and aspect-ratio of the frame and mat board will be the factors that determine how well your picture will fit.
You may be able to adapt the picture's dimensions. B
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As you mentioned that ColdFusion is irrelevent, same way those errors are irrelevent as it will not make any difference to the code.
By @Sandhya231275905kpl
I would disagree. HTML is tolerant and flexible. If you make a mistake in HTML, browsers will likely ignore them and display the page in the best way they can.
I tested your script as follows:
1) I created a 1429 px by 496 px copy of your image and placed it in the same directory as the test CFM page.
2) I created test.cfm, which contains:
<html>
<head>
<style> body { margin:0; } </style>
</head>
<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0>
<cfheader name="content-disposition" VALUE="attachment; filename=1.doc">
<cfoutput>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<cfset type="application/msword">
<tr>
<td><img src="http://localhost:8500/workspace/CF_Project/TopHeader.jpg" width="1429" height="496" border="0"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
</tr>
</table>
</cfoutput>
</body>
</html>
3) I ran test.cfm. The result is a Word page in which the image is located in the top-left corner. (image of result attached)
I have attached the print-preview. Is it what you expect?
Have you considered my suggestion? Reminder:
1. Create the HTML page, using the necessary styles to position the image and page elements.
2. Get the HTML page to display precisely as you want.
3. Introduce CFML code into the mix only after 2.
I am not preaching. I myself have been using this method for years.
@Sandhya231275905kpl , l shall say it again: all of these attempts (with an HTML table, cfheader with Word Content-Disposition, styles, etc.) will NOT produce the display you want. It is well-nigh impossible for the margins that you set in HTML to carry over to MS Word.
Imagine you wish to frame a picture. Obviously, the dimensions and aspect-ratio of the frame and mat board will be the factors that determine how well your picture will fit.
You may be able to adapt the picture's dimensions. But there is a limit to how the picture can affect the mat board and frame. In fact, the frame is fixed and determines the required size and aspect ratio of the picture, not vice versa.
This analogy carries over to your code. The HTML output corresponds to the picture, with or without mat board. MS Word (independent software unrelated to CF) supplies the fixed frame. MS Word may supply headers, footers or margins that you cannot anticipate in the HTML.
What your HTML code is doing is, simply, streaming HTML output to the browser. The Content-Disposition header tells the browser to offer the content as a downloadable MS Word file rather than display it inline.
That's it. Just as the picture in our frame analogy has limited influence on the dimensions of the frame and mat board, so too HTML has limited influence on the footers, headers, margins, styling, etc. that MS Word may impose.
What to do then?
Your best bet is to avoid the table tag. Use divs instead.
A simple example to demonstrate:
<html>
<head>
<cfheader name="content-disposition" value="attachment; filename=1.doc">
</head>
<body style="margin-top: 0in">
<div style="margin-left:-1.0in;margin-right:-1.0in;">
<img src="http://localhost:8500/workspace/CF_Project/TopHeader.jpg" border="0" width="1429" height="496" style="max-width:100%;">
</div>
</body>
</html>
- Open the downloaded file 1.doc in MS Word.
- Click on Page Layout, then on Margins.
- Click on Custom Margins, select 0 as Top margin and press OK.
- Examine the Print Preview and you will see that the image is at the top margin of the page.
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