On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Kenny J. Willis <k...@alliedinformationresource.com> wrote: > This seems to be a very short sided tag <cfpdf>. Why allow to > discreetly protect files and then have no way to display them.
cfpdf is a _server_ side tag. It modifies the setting of a PDF file. If you want to _view_ it w/o a password that is a client side thing. How do you view PDFs now? Either w/ Acrobat or Preview (on the mac) - a client side application. >Very > frustrating. What about the read action of cfpdf? Why couldn't I read > the file then dump it (for lack of a better word) to the client? PDFs aren't text. They are binary data. They must be viewed with a client side app or browser plugin, and that tool has been engineered to say, "If protect, ask for a password." > If > this is possible, I would like to know how. I have looked at the read > function and all it gives me is a wrapper and when I dump it it gives me > the file info, which is supposed to be another function of cfpdf (action > = info). The information I am dealing with is extremely sensitive and > should not, cannot be copied or unprotected - at least from my side to > the client. Sorry for the rant, just need to solve this as soon as > possible. What you are asking for is not really reasonable though. You want to publicly show a password protected PDF w/o a password. That doesn't really make sense. -Raymond ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:318348 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
