RE: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help
Thanks Rupesh! I'll take a look at my code. I didn't realize I was using that, but sure enough, there it is. That makes perfect sense why the first section shows up, but the rest don't too! andy -Original Message- From: Rupesh Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 6:27 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help Andy, It looks like the rendering engine for html/css in CF does not handle "overflow:auto". If you remove that from your style, the pdf will get created fine. Meanwhile we will investigate why "overflow:auto" style does not work. Thanks & Regards, Rupesh Adobe ColdFusion team. ~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294511 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help
Well thank you very much. I'll def need to debug it. It's got to have something to do with the combo of the CSS and my HTML. I'll just have to figure it out. -Original Message- From: Rob Parkhill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 8:42 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help Andy, Obviously, I don't have enough work ;) or I just like to help. So I debugged a bit for you. If I include the CSS inside the cfdocument tag, I get the colors appropriately inside the PDF, but I get 15 pages, and only the first has data, the rest is blank, however, when I leave the css reference outside of the tag, I get six pages (yes, I am just working with a sample) but all the data is there. Basically, it seems that the second is doing something funky. I will save the PDFs I have generated if you want some samples of the results, plus the CFM (not pretty necessarily, but it does work). I do have an interest in learning CFDocument, but not necessarily a project to do it with, so *play* time is a good break from the day to day "when is it done yet" Let me know how you make out. Rob ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294509 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help
Hey Rob... Last night I tried using an absolute path to the stylesheet, and that didn't work either. andy -Original Message- From: Rob Parkhill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 2:47 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help Andy, I just opened your source of your page above and copied a portion of it into a new document and wrapped it in a cfdocument, and it generated a PDF. Granted I don't have your stylesheet to use so none of the formatting came across the same, but text and images were there. Can you include the Stylesheet within the tag and see if that does anything? Rob ~| Get involved in the latest ColdFusion discussions, product development sharing, and articles on the Adobe Labs wiki. http://labs/adobe.com/wiki/index.php/ColdFusion_8 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294508 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help
Andy, It looks like the rendering engine for html/css in CF does not handle "overflow:auto". If you remove that from your style, the pdf will get created fine. Meanwhile we will investigate why "overflow:auto" style does not work. Thanks & Regards, Rupesh Adobe ColdFusion team. ~| Download the latest ColdFusion 8 utilities including Report Builder, plug-ins for Eclipse and Dreamweaver updates. http;//www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs%5adobecf8%5Fbeta Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294506 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help
Andy, It looks like the rendering engine for html/css in CF does not handle "overflow:auto". If you remove that from your style, the pdf will get created fine. Meanwhile we will investigate why "overflow:auto" style does not work. Thanks & Regards, Rupesh Adobe ColdFusion team. ~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294505 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help
Andy, Obviously, I don't have enough work ;) or I just like to help. So I debugged a bit for you. If I include the CSS inside the cfdocument tag, I get the colors appropriately inside the PDF, but I get 15 pages, and only the first has data, the rest is blank, however, when I leave the css reference outside of the tag, I get six pages (yes, I am just working with a sample) but all the data is there. Basically, it seems that the second is doing something funky. I will save the PDFs I have generated if you want some samples of the results, plus the CFM (not pretty necessarily, but it does work). I do have an interest in learning CFDocument, but not necessarily a project to do it with, so *play* time is a good break from the day to day "when is it done yet" Let me know how you make out. Rob ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294479 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help
I just realized I'm asking you to debug my code. Sorry about that. Thanks for the suggestion man. I'll check that out when I get home. -Original Message- From: Andy Matthews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 4:11 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help Hmmm... Can you try the same test, but use an absolute path to the CSS file? I wonder if I need to do that in my CSS generation, just like with images. -Original Message- From: Rob Parkhill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 2:47 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help Andy, I just opened your source of your page above and copied a portion of it into a new document and wrapped it in a cfdocument, and it generated a PDF. Granted I don't have your stylesheet to use so none of the formatting came across the same, but text and images were there. Can you include the Stylesheet within the tag and see if that does anything? Rob ~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&productID=1522&loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294470 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help
Hmmm... Can you try the same test, but use an absolute path to the CSS file? I wonder if I need to do that in my CSS generation, just like with images. -Original Message- From: Rob Parkhill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 2:47 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help Andy, I just opened your source of your page above and copied a portion of it into a new document and wrapped it in a cfdocument, and it generated a PDF. Granted I don't have your stylesheet to use so none of the formatting came across the same, but text and images were there. Can you include the Stylesheet within the tag and see if that does anything? Rob ~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294469 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help
Andy, I just opened your source of your page above and copied a portion of it into a new document and wrapped it in a cfdocument, and it generated a PDF. Granted I don't have your stylesheet to use so none of the formatting came across the same, but text and images were there. Can you include the Stylesheet within the tag and see if that does anything? Rob ~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&productID=1522&loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294468 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help
I was actually considering that. But the problem is that my CFC has code to do all of the conversion into DIVs. It just spits out a single variable for each distinct module. If it comes to that, that's what I'll do, but I'd rather avoid that if possible. It's got to have something to do with the CSS. I just don't know why. -Original Message- From: Rob Parkhill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 9:21 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help Andy, I guess that you could always design a high level CFR in report builder, and then pass the info that is generated for the proposals as a series of variables, but that seems messy. There is always something like ActivePDF which I was using (and still am on some sites still running 6) to create PDFs. I personally don't really like ActivePDF that much, just because, I didn't think that it ran as easily as I would've liked. You might have more success with the PDF creation if you take out the and use a table instead. I know that it is a pain, but I am sure that when I looked into my problem, there was something in the causing the error. Rob ~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade to ColdFusion 8 and integrate with Adobe Flex http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294457 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help
Andy, I guess that you could always design a high level CFR in report builder, and then pass the info that is generated for the proposals as a series of variables, but that seems messy. There is always something like ActivePDF which I was using (and still am on some sites still running 6) to create PDFs. I personally don't really like ActivePDF that much, just because, I didn't think that it ran as easily as I would've liked. You might have more success with the PDF creation if you take out the and use a table instead. I know that it is a pain, but I am sure that when I looked into my problem, there was something in the causing the error. Rob ~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294454 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help
Thanks Rob...I'll give that a shot. As a followup question, assuming that I can't get this working with CFDocument, what are my options people? This is part of an app I'm building for a client. I promised them they could convert these proposals to PDF because I knew CF had that built in. Now it's not working and I'm left holding the bag. I'm sure it's got something to do with something in my CSS, because when I comment out the CSS include, everything displays. -Original Message- From: Rob Parkhill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 8:08 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help Andy, try changing your cfdocument tag to the following: I know that when I first started using cfdocument, I had to do this when using CSS on the page that was creating the PDF. Of course the resultant PDF doesn't have the same 'look', but you might find that it has something to do with Fontembed. HTH, Rob ~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294452 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help
Andy, try changing your cfdocument tag to the following: I know that when I first started using cfdocument, I had to do this when using CSS on the page that was creating the PDF. Of course the resultant PDF doesn't have the same 'look', but you might find that it has something to do with Fontembed. HTH, Rob ~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294450 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
RE: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help
Jochem... But the text doesn't display either. Nothing displays below the address information at the bottom of page 1. -Original Message- From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 3:13 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help Andy Matthews wrote: > I'm trying to create a PDF from a page and it's not working. The way I've read is that to do this, you simply wrap whatever content you have within cfdocument tags, with the type set to PDF. So that's what I've done, and it's not working correctly. > > Here's the actual page: > http://gaylordoprylandsales.com/prop/proposal.cfm?view=73534E3B54060A4 > C061052691D13 > > Here's the page when a PDF is trying to be generated: > http://gaylordoprylandsales.com/prop/proposal_pdf.cfm?view=73534E3B540 > 60A4C061052691D13 Change the HTML of the page so you don't refer to images by their relative path, but with a file:///d:/images... type URL and try again. Jochem ~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72&catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294449 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help
Andy Matthews wrote: > I'm trying to create a PDF from a page and it's not working. The way I've > read is that to do this, you simply wrap whatever content you have within > cfdocument tags, with the type set to PDF. So that's what I've done, and it's > not working correctly. > > Here's the actual page: > http://gaylordoprylandsales.com/prop/proposal.cfm?view=73534E3B54060A4C061052691D13 > > Here's the page when a PDF is trying to be generated: > http://gaylordoprylandsales.com/prop/proposal_pdf.cfm?view=73534E3B54060A4C061052691D13 Change the HTML of the page so you don't refer to images by their relative path, but with a file:///d:/images... type URL and try again. Jochem ~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72&catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294443 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help
Oh...one more thing. The code on the PDF page is identical (except for the cfdocument tag), which is set up like so: ~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294439 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
Re: PDF creation in CF8 - not working...please help
Oh...one more thing. The code on the PDF page is identical (except for the cfdocument tag), which is set up like so: all code inside here ... ~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:294440 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
