ColdFusion 11 Highlight - Revamped PDF manipulation

 From the IDC Whitepaper / January 2015 

Revamped PDF manipulation. ColdFusion 11 features a fully revamped PDF Engine

leveraging technology from Adobe's LiveCycle and Acrobat products and the WebKit project.
The new technology produces high-quality PDFs from HTML using a new high-performance
architecture (i.e., CFHTMLToPDF and CFHTMLToPDFItem tags). The Enterprise Edition of
ColdFusion 11 features clustering support. ColdFusion 11 also has an enhanced PDF
archiving feature with the ability to convert PDF documents to the PDF/A-1b format for
archiving as self-contained documents. The new release also features digital signature
capabilities and full DDX support for advanced PDF manipulation, which utilizes the LiveCycle
Assembler functionality. These capabilities are provided in addition to the functionality added
in ColdFusion 9 to generate PDFs from Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint file formats
and to convert Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Excel spreadsheets into HTML or read into
internal memory variables with the cfspreadsheet tag for complex manipulation. Overall,
ColdFusion 11 adds to the product's existing powerful capabilities for integrating with Microsoft
SharePoint and IMAP-compatible servers such as Microsoft Exchange.
A couple of items regarding PDF and CF I personally like to see work better:

1. Better handeling of page brakes.
2. The ability to imbed PNG graphics, especially those created with CF Charting tags.
3. Dynamic form creation.

Yes, I know some of the three things above we can do now, I just think they could be done a lot better.

For the full whitepaper: http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2015/03/17/12593845/IDC_Adobe_ColdFusion11.pdf