Question

I’ve been attempting to find / do this for a week now and I can’t seem to master it.
I’ve pre-designed a ticketing system for live events in Illustrator and moved it to Publisher and also moved it to a PDF.

I was using ColdFusion to take HTML and make these tickets (10 per page) using CFDOCUMENT but that just wasn’t allowing for the “design” elements that I really wanted.

So my last attempt is to dig out Report Builder and see what it can do…

I have a code that will show up on each ticket that is unique to that ticket.
It looks something like this:

GUP-Z2F G 4 C

The last 3 letters will have circle backgrounds for a hole punch to punch them out.
There is 1 letter / number per day of the event.
So for 3 character string it would be 3 days.

Some codes may be 6 to 10 days… who knows!

GUP-Z2F G 4 C P T 6

Attaching an Image to this message to illustrate it.
Ticket Code Image

Basically, my code in the query is like so:

fulltoken,tokenPart1,tokenPart2,tokenPart3
GUP-Z2F-G4C,GUP,Z2F,G4C

I would need to split the last part of the token into an array by character and then create a new circle for each letter and put the letter / number in that circle.

Would report builder work good for this? or is there another way?
I’ve looked into iText, Flying Saucer, cfdocument, cfpdf, etc.
None of them gave me the design freedom that I’m needing.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!!

UPDATE
I’ve also generated the image with cfimage stuff for the code which would work but I was hoping for something crisp and vector but if I could improve the DPI of the code image generated to maybe 100dpi it might look okay… is this possible?

Answer 1

I believe you can have the image show only if the param is defined. See Print Control under Property of your shape/circle.

So you just draw all the circles background you need, add a text field on top of each them, and then set them to show only if len(param.dayX) or something like that?