Why not use one cfpdf with pagebreaks instead?

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Igor Ilyinsky <i...@maverickmaven.com> wrote:
>
> CFDOCUMENT has been the bane of my existence for years. Check out this simple 
> dynamic PDF packaging code which should work...
>
> <CFSET PAGEARRAY = [] />
> <CFLOOP from="1" to="3" index="i">
> <CFDOCUMENT FORMAT="PDF" NAME="PDFPAGE">
> <html><body><div 
> style="background:url(http://www.houseoffusion.com/_/hof120.gif)"><BR>&nbsp;</div></body></html>
> </CFDOCUMENT>
> <cfset arrayappend(PAGEARRAY,PDFPAGE) />
> </CFLOOP>
> <CFDOCUMENT FORMAT="PDF" NAME="PDFPAGE">
> <html><body><div 
> style="background:url(http://www.houseoffusion.com/_/hof120.gif)"><BR>&nbsp;</div></body></html>
> </CFDOCUMENT>
> <cfset arrayappend(PAGEARRAY,PDFPAGE) />
> <CFPDF action="merge" name="FINALPDF">
>  <cfloop from="1" to="#arraylen(PAGEARRAY)#" index="i">
>   <cfset pointer = PAGEARRAY[i]/>
>   <cfpdfparam source="pointer">
>  </cfloop>
> </CFPDF>
> <cfcontent type="application/pdf" variable="#tobinary(FINALPDF)#">
>
>
> If you run this (on CF8 or CF9 - not tried 10) you will notice that the image 
> appears only on the first and last page! Why? Because CFDocument ignores 
> background images after the first call when in a loop. I was able to prove 
> this by putting the call into a CFINCLUDE inside the loop. But then, if you 
> add a CFDOCUMENTITEM to it, it throws an error: "Routines cannot be declared 
> more than once". According to Adobe there was a hotfix for this in CF8, 
> although it did not work for me.
>
> Anyone know CFDoc well enough to present another solution?
>
> TIA,
> Igor
>
>
> 

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