I have written a piece of code that uploads a pdf to a web site, then
requests the html version from the Acrobat site, saves that away and gives
the user the option to view either.
Its part of an integrated content management system.
Works very well.
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I recently posed this one and it seems that www.activepdf.com is the
best. also, if you are using Adobe Acrobat (desktop edition for creating
PDF's) it may not be entirely legal..
the ActivePDF site has more info.
Neil
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I am not using Acrobat at all for that conversion -- ghostscript handles
the pspdf conversion, so it is all legal.
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Yep, cool..but i bet its not 100% acrurate with table etc.
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From: Hugo Ahlenius [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 24 January 2003 09:53
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: PDF Conversion Tools Question
I am not using Acrobat at all for that conversion -- ghostscript handles
the
To add a different twist to this topic merge a previous topic i posted can
anyone recommend any hosts that *allow* CFOBJECT? Is this method
completely secure?
The best deal i have found is here so far
http://www.cfdynamics.com/cfdynamics/SharedHosting/comparison-chart.cfm
Any other suggestions?
I haven't tuned the word/postscript/ghostscript combo to the max, but the
problem I am seeing is not the compability/conversion (works fine) but the
compression of images (not super quality, and large file size) and also
the colors (should be fixable by tuning the color profile with the printer
I would like to make some vars for my Application dynamic, especially if
they are accessed from different path mappings, or from different
sym-links in the directory tree:
* absolute local path on server
* relative local path
* URL path
For the directory that the Application.cfm is in. I have
Quoting Toby Tremayne [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've been searching through the online forums and docs but can't
find anything that actually tells me how to do this. I have a
database (msaccess) full of data stored by a cf application being
run under 4.5 for most of it's life then cf
Is there a solution for the other way (create a datasource from my
coldfusion code)?
Best regards,
Peter
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I don't believe you can create
Quoting Peter Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Is there a solution for the other way (create a datasource from my
coldfusion code)?
http://spike.oli.tudelft.nl/jochemd/index.cfm?pageID=12
Jochem
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Personally, I don't use cfinsert, cfupdate, or any of the cfform tags.
Sure they're quick and convenient, but they're not very flexible. As
soon as you want to do something even slightly beyond the design (like
set a DateUpdated field to now() for example) you're faced with either
rewriting
That was a bug in the initial release of CFMX, but the fix should have been included
in Updater 1. If you've apply either Updater 1 or 2, it should straighten it out.
Debbie
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From: Lawrence B. Afrin, M.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003
I sent this problem around the holidays and didn't get much response other than I was
told restarting the server was the only way to solve it. I don't know how things work
in other places, but that's not an option here. We can't have someone monitoring for
that error and then restarting the CF
Cathy,
A quick dirty work-around would be to let cf cfhttp a cgi that would do
the same thing (the unzip action).
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I've been in contact with Debbie. Unfortunately, we have Updater 2 on bith
servers and the problem still occurs.
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From: Christian Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 12:06 AM
Subject: Re: jrun.exe killing IIS service
I have W2K Pro running IIS 5 with virtual directories
as follows:
mydir mapped to c:\inetpub\wwwroot\mydir
mydir2 mapped to c:\inetpub\wwwroot\mydir2
I can browse the contents of both these directories with
the URLs:
http://127.0.0.1/mydir/
http://127.0.0.1/mydir2/
I've
With the limited version of IIS I'm running which only
allows one website root, I haven't found a better way
of segregating these sites for development. If you have
any suggestions, I would certainly like to hear them.
If you need to run each project within a separate virtual server, you
Can you send me a literal example? I'd like to recreate and send in as a
bug report.
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Raymond Camden, ColdFusion Jedi Master for Mindseye, Inc
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WWW : www.camdenfamily.com/morpheus
Yahoo IM :
why wont virt dirs help?
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From: Stephen Hait [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 24 January 2003 14:27
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Studio 5 development mappings problem
I have W2K Pro running IIS 5 with virtual directories
as follows:
mydir mapped to
Also, when checking for validations on our forms, we're getting Runtime
Errors. I'm fairly certain that we need to set up mapping to the CFIDE
directory to ensure that the form is able to access all files required,
but sadly, I'm not so certain how to do that. Instead, I no longer
use the
At 06:31 PM 1/23/2003 -0800, you wrote:
At 08:11 PM 1/23/03 +0100, you wrote:
- you could use multiple logins to the database, a readonly login and a
normal
one for instance
Tell me more.
Define more as 1 login. Use the readonly login from all the public
templates, and the one with
If you need to run each project within a separate virtual server,
you can always use Apache instead of the limited IIS in Win2K Pro.
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
Good suggestion. Thanks.
Stephen
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Andrew Golden wrote:
You should be able to assign permissions on a per user basis in SQL 7 or if
you want to back the restrictions out from the database itself go into
cf-admin's datasources management interface and create two datasources, one
for reading and one for writing and then
Hello,
I am writing UDF's on MX using cffunction, and I would like to know what
the best way to create local variables for use inside my functions that will
not interfere with variables in the caller's scope.
Right now, I have to make sure that my variable names are unique inside and
outside
Thanks, Howard! I'm glad you like what we've built here. I'd like to add that Michael
works exceptionally hard on these lists, making sure they run fast and well. He
deserves much of the credit.
I'm happy to see some recognition in the news of what Macromedia has been doing.
Macromedia has
Which version of Apache for W2K is best to use with CF5?
Thanks,
Stephen
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Yesh.
*slides warm blueberry muffin to Christian*
-Gel
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Thanks, Howard! I'm glad you like what we've built here. I'd like to add
that Michael works exceptionally hard on these lists, making sure they
run fast and well.
You can use Apache 2 - the modules for the current apache versions can be
found here:
http://home.nextron.ch/coldfusion/
Best regards,
Peter
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Datum/Zeit: Freitag, 24. Jänner
I need to develop with both CF and ASP - is there a way to do
this on W2K with Apache? If I run Apache with CF5, do I then
also need to somehow run IIS for ASP?
Sorry if that sounds stupid :-)
Stephen
Which version of Apache for W2K is best to use with CF5?
Thanks,
Stephen
Use the var keyword when declaring your variables. Unfortunately, you
have to place all of your var declarations at the top of the function,
after the cfargument tags but before any other CFML.
!--- this function is included via cfinclude from another page ---
cffunction name=add_two_numbers
I am writing UDF's on MX using cffunction, and I would like
to know what
the best way to create local variables for use inside my
functions that will
not interfere with variables in the caller's scope.
The only and only way is with the var scope. Simply do:
cffunction ...
Well great, but I see Asp.net creaping up and quickly too. As a product is
seems to be more widely accepted and possibly will eclipse JSP/JAVA and
others in a very short time. My question is while MM can dump more into
marketing and hype the product, but what can the community do to help. It
In addition to the other bad stuff already mentioned, these tags black-box
the sql, so that any problems that crop up - and they will :) - become all
the more difficult to debug. Plus they have compatibility issues with
mySQL. Not sure if that matters to you, but it sure did to me when I ran
Does anyone have any tips about what might be happening
when an RDS connection repeatedly fails when
debugging a website?
Greg M
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At 04:04 PM 1/24/2003 +0100, you wrote:
I would not rely on the functionality of CF MX to provide this kind of
security. In combination with various database escape characters it is
rather easy to circumvent.
Hmmmhad not heard that yet. Is there a list of what to check for so I
can throw
I need to develop with both CF and ASP - is there a way
to do this on W2K with Apache? If I run Apache with CF5,
do I then also need to somehow run IIS for ASP?
You'll need IIS for your ASP development. You can, however, run both IIS and
Apache on a single machine; either on different ports
Andrew Golden wrote:
At 04:04 PM 1/24/2003 +0100, you wrote:
I would not rely on the functionality of CF MX to provide this kind of
security. In combination with various database escape characters it is
rather easy to circumvent.
Hmmmhad not heard that yet. Is there a list of what to
ASP .NET is being heavily promoted by Microsoft, however, CF and ASP play
together quite nicely, and it is kind of a no-brainier that some operations run
quite a bit more efficient with CF than ASP, and of course there is the matter
of less lines of code in CF.
It will all come out in the wash,
When I click the Submit button from my personal page to submit a tag, I get
a CF error onscreen. Is it just me or is this broken for everyone?
--Matt Robertson--
MSB Designs, Inc.
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Any chance this will ever be possible?
cffunction ...
cfargument ...
cfscript
var x = 1;
var y = 2;
It always seems to throw the vars need to specified at the top error,
since cfscript tag comes first. I'm not really sure why 'var' is even
a part
Is it faster to use the cfstoredproc tag or the cfquery tag for stored procs?
ty,
mike
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I would be cautious with the advice for developers to become multi-skilled. In a
perfect world, I would be able to do a task in PHP, Perl, CF, ASP or Java, but in the
real world my head would explode knowing everything there is to know about that. Plus
you stretch yourself too thin if you try
Adrocknaphobia Jones wrote:
Any chance this will ever be possible?
cffunction ...
cfargument ...
cfscript
var x = 1;
var y = 2;
It always seems to throw the vars need to specified at the top error,
since cfscript tag comes first. I'm not really
Greetings,
We recently added an additional 1.5gb of RAM (now have 2.5gb) to our
application server, so I upped the JVM memory setting in CFAdministrator
to 1664mb ... now I'm getting a Service Specific Error 2 when starting
the ColdFusion MX Application Server service. I've tried several
Any chance this will ever be possible?
cffunction ...
cfargument ...
cfscript
var x = 1;
var y = 2;
I don't know the future. ;)
It always seems to throw the vars need to specified at the
top error, since cfscript tag comes first. I'm not really
have you tried GetTemplatePath() ?
with a little manipulation teh rest can be pulled from its value
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From: Hugo Ahlenius [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 5:34 AM
Subject: directory vars
I would like to make some vars
I am sure no one could have sent this better. I just thought I would add
my .02 cents to this -
I think Cold Fusions biggest blemish is that it's too easy. It's an easy
tag based environment. Anyone can do it - that sure means it can't
handle large scale or secure applications.
just what I
Well, along with being cautious about becoming multi-skilled, you really
need to focus on 3-4 technologies and settle down with those. Hence,
it's one big gamble. My destiny lies within ColdFusion, .NET (using C#),
Visual Basic 6 (Com/COM+), and general web dev skills (HTML / JavaScript
/ CSS). I
I appreciate the input from Chris Norloff and Chris Kief on this issue.
I had two somewhat intertwined problems in my CFMX for JRun install. I
solved the first problem (could not access the admin application) after
following the JRun4 SP1a release notes regarding CFMX.
Still, I could not get
Ah! Ok.
Adam Wayne Lehman
Web Systems Developer
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Distance Education Division
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From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 11:35 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Protecting scope of
Add to my initial post - here's the log message from ColdFusion:
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for object heap
Error occurred during initialization of VM
Could not reserve enough space for object heap listening on port 2901
There is plenty of memory to
well duhguess i missed this one
For backward compatibility, GetTemplatePath is still supported. However,
GetBaseTemplatePath supersedes this function, and should be used in place of
it.
i was going for.
cfoutput
brbr Full Local Path: #GetTemplatePath()#
brbr Relative LOCAL:
The fact that CF is too easy also means there are a lot of CF apps out
there that are not done properly--cf is easy to do, not always easy to do
right. We've run into this problem a lot where clients have seen very
poorly performing CF apps written by non-programmers.
Run into the same
At 11:23 AM 1/24/2003 -0500, you wrote:
I would be cautious with the advice for developers to become
multi-skilled. In a perfect world, I would be able to do a task in PHP,
Perl, CF, ASP or Java, but in the real world my head would explode knowing
everything there is to know about that. Plus
At 12:22 PM 1/24/2003 -0500, you wrote:
The fact that CF is too easy also means there are a lot of CF apps out
there that are not done properly--cf is easy to do, not always easy to do
right. We've run into this problem a lot where clients have seen very
poorly performing CF apps written by
One of the things that MM finally did was offer a developer version of the
server,( many people still do not know this). While this is great it came in
late in the game. Though there are other free software out there, CF is
easier to build in . The fact that it works under Websphere and
On Friday, Jan 24, 2003, at 07:37 US/Pacific, S V wrote:
Well great, but I see Asp.net creaping up and quickly too. As a
product is
seems to be more widely accepted and possibly will eclipse JSP/JAVA and
others in a very short time.
I very much doubt that. I think we may see an increasing
(cf5 question)
My cdata and cglobal tables are quite large. I'm in the process of writing a
custom script for cleaning them out since the automated CF management
feature isn't getting rid of what I know is junk client data.
I found the problem I was having to be quite interesting. I was having a
Here is the link:
http://markme.com/cantrell/weblog/index.cfm?m=1d=23y=2003
Bryan F. Hogan
Director of Internet Development
Macromedia Certified ColdFusion MX Developer
Digital Bay Media, Inc.
1-877-72DIGITAL
While I appreciate the fact that ASP.Net is a pretty decent platform, I have
to disagree with certain ideas.
First, ASP.Net has been slow to adopt. ASP developers are forced to
re-learn everything. There are a lot of things that only took a few minutes
in Asp that are downright tricky in .net.
Bryan,
Thanks for the link.
-Jon
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From: Bryan F. Hogan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 1:30 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Manually cleaning out cdata and cglobal tables?
Here is the link:
Hi Jon, you should checkout the link on Christian's Blog, I can't remember
the URL but someone on the list will post it for you.
Bryan F. Hogan
Director of Internet Development
Macromedia Certified ColdFusion MX Developer
Digital Bay Media, Inc.
Hi Scott,
Hope it's not too late. 3000 emails to go ! You can try out codecharge to
convert your asp code to CF. Pretty cool.
http://www.codecharge.com/
/Ant/
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From: Scott Wilhelm [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 1:53 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject:
It's a matter of balance. A complete knowledge of most languages is not
absolutely necessary.
Many developers can easily compete if they have:
1) a no nonsense work ethic,
2) a solid understanding of a languages syntax,
3) a good understanding of a languages abilities/limitations,
4) a strong
Well, ASP reached it's end-of-life in terms of extensible architecture.
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From: Costas Piliotis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Friday, January 24, 2003 11:25 am
Subject: RE: OT: MM Suprises Wall Street - Can more be done?
While I appreciate the fact that ASP.Net is a pretty
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 14:46:49 -0800, in cf-talk you wrote:
Here's an interesting one and conceivable not possible, but I thought I
would ask all the wise ones here on the CF-Talk list before I tell my client
NO!. Has anybody ever done anything connecting Cold Fusion and Telnet?
Basically the
I would like to make some vars for my Application dynamic, especially if
they are accessed from different path mappings, or from different
sym-links in the directory tree:
* absolute local path on server
* relative local path
* URL path
For the directory that the Application.cfm is in. I
Yes it is broken! It has been broken for a while now. I've recently emailed
some people at Macromedia and I'm waiting for a response to the issue.
_
Pete Freitag
CTO, CFDEV.COM
http://www.cfdev.com/
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From: Matt Robertson
On Friday, Jan 24, 2003, at 06:56 US/Pacific, Jon Gunnip wrote:
I am writing UDF's on MX using cffunction, and I would like to know
what
the best way to create local variables for use inside my functions
that will
not interfere with variables in the caller's scope.
As others have said -
As for me ...
I know CF pretty well. Combine that with a good and growing knowledge of
the development process, I think I'm a pretty darn good CF developer. I've
been solidifying my JavaScript skills and I'm starting on a program to learn
Java. I need to learn (better) one good text processing
Pete let me know about this yesterday. I've passed the problem along
internally and hopefully it will fixed soon.
Christian
On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 02:25 PM, Pete Freitag wrote:
Yes it is broken! It has been broken for a while now. I've recently
emailed
some people at Macromedia
Whew! :) As it turns out, the vast majority of references to this as a
variable name were in the class methods, so by doing a multi-file rereplace
from ([^[:alpha:]])this([^[:alpha:]]) to \1self\2 on the directory and
subdirectories, I was able to replace all the references to this with a
new
Its fixed right now. Just submitted something.
Thx!
---
Matt Robertson, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.com
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Does anyone know how to create server-wide (not site-wide) error
handlers and missing template handlers in CFMX?
In CF5 you could specify a directory path that would work for all sites
on the server (D:\Inetpub\wwwroot\global_error.cfm) and a similar method
for 404 errors.
CFMX wants a
By default are cfarguments ... protected from outside intervention?
Adam Wayne Lehman
Web Systems Developer
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Distance Education Division
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From: Sean A Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003
Is it possible to setup a cfgridcolumn as a mailto link?
thanks,
Luis R. Lebron
Project Manager
Sigmatech, Inc
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We're using CFQUERYPARAM tags on a project for the first time (CF5 Windows
/ SQL Server 7) and we've had a lot of success in improving the general
performance of the application.
We just ran into one stumbling block: TEXT fields. If we use the
CFQUERYPARAM SQLDATATYPE of CF_SQL_VARCHAR, our
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