Sounds like your requirements are much greater than my small little worthless app :-) I'm using cflocation. I know, I know - security problems. I like to call it security through obscurity. That is, the cflocation is in a frame and the source is not on the url line. Still not as secure as cfcontent, but it works for the little app we're doing.
I've found the same thing - cfcontent works on most pc's, but there are those few that just keep having problems. We had a problem (and this was pretty consistent) where after you viewed 5 or 6 pdf's with cfcontent, your browser would lock-up. I've never figured out what the problem was. All I know is that when we went from cfcontent to cflocation there were no more problems. Mark -----Original Message----- From: Janine Jakim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 4:36 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFContent (and other options) What do you use instead? I've been doing some testing with the different tags and this is what I came up with: meta tag is very difficult to backup from. The users look/print the pdf then have to double click the back button. And after making a few reports the thing locks up/won't back up and they have to log in again. <embed> works great on the PC, but not for the mac or on our wireless. On the mac you can't read the pdf in the browser and then it prints out funny (ie: losing it's landscape formatting). Also it wouldn't pull up the bulk pdfs (over 20pgs)just the individual ones (we're doing report cards-it'll pull up individual ones but not for a whole class). It doesn't work on the wireless either. <cfcontent> works on almost everything, but the wireless and the few machines. On the wireless we get a msg about the index24 What's the better thing to use -----Original Message----- From: Mark Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 4:09 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: CFContent I've run into the same problem and oddly enough, it was with a 98 machine. My solution, and I don't know if this is the right answer but it worked, I told the user to uninstall their current version of Acrobat Reader and re-install Acrobat Reader 5. This worked for anyone who had the problem. I've since gone away from cfcontent as I experienced inconsistent results with that bastard of a tag. Mark -----Original Message----- From: Janine Jakim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 4:00 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: CFContent I'm using CFCONTENT to call a pdf form- It does fine on MAC IE and most pc IE and Netscape. However, on one browser a 98 machine with IE5.5 I can't get the pdf to show. Instead there is the box and the msg says Error Locating Object Handler There is no viewer available for the type of object you are trying to open. The following informantion is available about this object. Address: http://blahblah Content type: text/html Possible location of viewer: Microsoft ActiveXGallery I took the Ben Forta advice and checked the Folder Options in Tools of Windows Explorer. I went over it piece by piece comparing it to the settings of a browser that worked- I didn't see any differences. This browser has opened pdfs when I used the meta tag and the embed tag so I know that it does open pdfs...any suggestions? Thanks in advance, ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
