Jared, Thanks again. I've tried every configuration I can think of I can't get either of the results you reported. Would you mind trying this link at planetpdf.com and letting me know what happens: http://www.planetpdf.com/planetpdf/inetpub/demo2.html This is the same basic idea of serving a FDF data file that points to a corresponding PDF but it's ASP instead of CF.
Even though this FDF/PDF solution has worked for us for a couple of years, it's been a real bear trying to troubleshoot the odd, unreproducible problem. There are too many different factors between operating system and patch level, browser version and patch level and plugin configuration, Reader or Acrobat version(s), etc. Since there doesn't seem to be much problem with reading actual PDF files in most browsers, I think I will start looking at a solution that fills and saves a PDF file on the server and then serves that to the requestor. If you have any advice along those lines, please lay it on me. Thanks again for your time, Stephen > Stephen... > > I just hit the URL again using IE 6. > > I got two messages from Acrobat, one that the page contained no > comments with "Yes" and "No" buttons. > > The other one said "This action is not permitted." > > Both of these ocurred while I had Reader open as a standalone app. > When I hit the FDF page without Acrobat open, I, once again, got a > blank page and no errors. > > Sorry dude... > > Laterz, > J > > > On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 13:42:30 -0500, Stephen Hait > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jared, Thanks to you and Doug James > for checking into this > issue. > > > I just hit your test page, and > the PDF form came up, the contents of > > the FDF came up... same as > Doug. > > > > But when I clicked on the link to the FDF, I got the > Reader splash > > screen, and then nothing. Blank screen. No content > at all. No errors > > either... but I'm not sure that's a good > thing. I used the FireFox > > Page Info dialogue to save the FDF to > my desktop and when I opened > > it in Reader, nothing at all came > up there either, just a blank, > > gray, empty Reader screen. > > It > seems that Firefox has some known issues when trying to > display a > PDF via a FDF (content of type Application/vnd.fdf). I > should have > made it clearer that what we're trying to reproduce > are errors > when opening the form with _Internet Explorer_. That > link again > is: > http://www.hopeaviation.com/pilotform/test/index.cfm > > If > anyone else could test this with IE and report whether it > succeeds > or how it fails, I'd appreciate it. > > > The system is oriented > toward delivering content from a base64 > > encoded DB text table, > but the example uses a PDF which is streamed > > back to the browser > in a CFM page with cfcontent and cfheader making > > Acrobat think > it's a PDF file... source code is downloadable from > > the link > provided. > > This is basically what we're doing, too, except that > we're trying to > make the browser think that it's a FDF file (mime > type would be > Application/vnd.fdf). Here's another example for > comparison at > planetpdf.com (FWIW, this is the same situation but > using ASP > instead of CF. I have the same problems with Firefox and > this > example): > > http://www.planetpdf.com/planetpdf/inetpub/demo2.html > > Thanks > again, > Stephen > > > -- > Continuum Media Group LLC > Burnsville, MN 55337 > http://www.web-relevant.com > http://cfobjective.blogspot.com > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:190656 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
