Coldfusion: Adding printing and/or PDF export capability to website

I have a website that displays database query results on my dynamic coldfusion page. My question is, how can I add an print icon to the page, and have it print the results is a printer friendly format. I mean, I don't want it to just print my website, but rather, a nice list of the database results.

Even better, it'd be nice if it opened a nice list of the recipes in Adobe reader (as a .pdf). It'd give the user the option of saving it as a .pdf, or just printing it right through Adobe Reader.

Let me know your thoughts!

 

This site might help you out. There is a cfdocument tag that I think is suppose to handel exactly what you are looking for.

http://mxdj.sys-con.com/read/48962.htm

Good luck

 

One way you could do this is Place a link on the page that you may want the user to be able to print.

<a href="whatyouwantpritd.html">Printer Friendly Version</a>

Code (markup):

the link should point to a page with this tag:

<cfdocument format="pdf">

Everything you want to be printed needs to go here nested inside the <cfdocument> tag

</cfdocument>

Code (markup):

Not sure this is the best way but it work. When the user clicks the link to the page with the cfdocument tag the page will load in Abobe. then they will be able to hit the print button.