[cfaussie] Re: cfdocument - client file name

[AJ Mercer]

I want to be able to open the PDF in the browser (not prompted to save as download).

When they click on the save button in the acrobat tool bar, it currently names the file after the ColdFusion script - in your example ( download.cfm) it would name the file download.pdf

If the email button is clicked, and attachment is chosen, the file that is attached to the email is named after the ColdFusion script exactly, ie, download.cfm - which is no good when you go to open it.

From my testing, I am getting the same results using cfdocument or the cfheader methods.


What I am trying to achieve is give the PDF a default file name.
And at the same time, I don't want the file left on the server.

The main purpose of the PDF is to get a print friendly document. But it would be nice to resolve this issue if the user decides they would rather print or email.

On 11/3/06, Joel Cass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I am not sure exactly what you are trying to do as I've never mucked around with cfdocument, but the way that I use a lot for serving out files for clients to save to disk is:

 

.../download.cfm/myfilename.pdf [or whatever]

 

in your download.cfm, look up cgi.path_info (note that this value differs when not specified in some CF versions), and then serve out the file from there

 

e.g.

 

<cfif len(cgi.path_info) AND cgi.path_info IS NOT cgi.script_name>

    <cfset fn = listLast(cgi.path_info,"/")> (optional)

    <cfcontent reset=true ...>

    <cfheader ...>

    <cfoutput... etc

    OR <cfcontent file=...>   

</cfif>

 

My 2 cents

 

Joel

-----Original Message-----
From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:cfaussie@googlegroups.com]On Behalf Of AJ Mercer
Sent: Thursday, 2 November 2006 2:38 PM
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Subject: [cfaussie] cfdocument - client file name

Is it possible to give a pdf created by cfdocument a filename that will be used by the client when they click save or email as attachment?

At the moment, the save option comes up the the ColdFusionscript name with .cfm replaced with .pdf.
The email as attachment option just puts it the cf script name - with the .cfm extension, so for me it DreamWeaver tries to open it.

I would rather not go with the option of using cfdocument to save the pdf on the server then push that out using
<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="inline; filename=Listing #listing_no#.ext">

I am now messing around with the cfheader in the cfdocument, but so far with out any luck.

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