CFMX 7 breaks all of my iText code so I was trying to find a soultion without breaking the CFDOCUMENT tag since I didn’t really want to break it.

I checked out Spike’s Blog about calling a class from a different class path (It was referenced on the Macromedia Forums.). This caused all sorts of errors for me about StructBeans and private methods. Since there are about 10 classes I use image,element, PDFTable, PDFCell this proved a problem. If anyone else got this to work I would love to hear about it.

So I went back to Aaron’s Blog, this is where I found out about iText to begin with. I post a comment that didn’t come through about Spike’s article, but decided to refactor the iText jar myself.

So I went to the iText Ant page and followed the directions to download a new copy and compile it.

When I had the source downloaded I renamed all the references for “lowagie” to “lowagie_new” and recompiled it. And presto it seemed to work. I compiled this on OS X so I am not sure if that will cause issues or not it seemed to work though.

Here is a link : iText 1.3 Refactored

To make it work add it to the Class Path for CF and when you use CreateObject use com.lowagie_new instead of com.lowagie.

So give it a try and let me know.

P.S. Does anyone know which version of iText Macromedia decided to use? It doesn’t seem to have any of the features of iText 1.3.