Christine --
Alright, you've told me twice now, I'll take a hint :-) and upgrade my server.
Thanks!
-- LBA ("Larry," please -- not even my mother calls me "Lawrence")
P.S. Um, as long as I'm doing a good "stupid" impression in public, I might as
well also ask: where do I find "the TTF
sfile" to install for the TrueType fonts listed on my server's Font Management
page? All of these fonts are listed as
being installed in my server's /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType directory, but
I don't see anything that looks like an
"sfile" hanging around in there. For that matter, I have no idea how those
TrueType fonts came to be on my server in
the first place; I'm presuming the CFMX 7.0 install put them there for use with
cfdocument and cfreport.
Christine Davis wrote:
> Lawrence, 7.0.1 and 7.0.2 fix a number of issues related to CFDocument.
>
> 1. ID 60865 PDF files created with the cfdocument tag may not render
> content with the specified fonts. To avoid this issue, install the TTF
> sfile for the font you want to use. In addition, on OS X, if the content
> contains any Unicode characters, the content may not render properly. To
> avoid this issue on OS X, install Arial Unicode MS or any other Unicode
> font in .ttf form.
>
> 2. ID 60212 cfdocument text clipping at bottom/top of page also fixes
> 59991
>
> 3. ID 61378 Threading Issues
>
> And a couple of others I didn't care so much about... It also adds some
> additional functionality to the CFDocument tag.
>
> Our issues with font size and font face decreased significantly after we
> installed the upgrade. We had examples of the same HTML code showing
> the correct font face on our development (7.0.2) server and our
> production (7.0.0) server. I cannot tell you what to do with your
> server, but my experience has been that upgrading greatly helped with
> our CFDocument problems. It's not perfect, and quirks still get
> through. Even with the upgrades applied styles don't always work as
> expected.. but it is closer now.
>
> Thanks!
> Christine Davis
> ColdFusion Lead
> Nations Technical Services
> Prairie Village, KS
> 913-748-8044 ext 4703
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lawrence B. Afrin, M.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 5:16 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Follow-up re: Quicky question re: cfdocument and fonts
>
> Chris, Christine, Sandra, and everyone else --
>
> A bit of a mea culpa here, with some progress but some persistent
> problems...
>
> Thanks again for your previous efforts to help me with my problem making
> font adjustments in PDFs produced with
> cfdocument in CFMX 7.0 (Linux). I discovered a typo in my inline style
> font directive that was causing part of the
> problem. The "<font>" tag still doesn't work, but inline style
> directives are beginning to work. I now have partial
> control over the font in the PDF, by which I mean I can control font
> sizes using the "font-size" directive and, using
> the "font" directive, I can switch (to some degree) among the fonts of
> font type "ADOBE-BUILT-IN" as listed on the CFMX
> server's Font Management page. By "some degree" I mean I seem to be
> able to access only the base fonts. For example,
> font:Times-Roman works, but font:Times-Italic doesn't. Furthermore,
> whenever I refer to any of the fonts that are
> listed in the Font Management page as being of font type "TRUETYPE", I
> merely get the default Times Roman.
>
> Along the lines of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," I'm now wondering
> if I really do have to update my server as you,
> Christine, suggested. Do y'all have any other suggestions for accessing
> the TrueType fonts (e.g., Arioso, Chevara,
> Conga, Helmet) listed on my CFMX server's Font Management page? Again,
> I've tried this with both fontembed settings
> ("yes" and "no"), to no avail; I just keep getting the default Times
> Roman whenever I reference a TrueType font. I've
> also verified my font directives are inside the cfdocument structure.
>
> -- LBA
>
> Sandra Clark wrote:
>
> > Make sure your call to a stylesheet is within the <cfdocument> tags.
> > Basically your entire layout. I'm not sure how Acrobat handles <font
> or
> > other obsolete tags, but it does handle most of CSS properly.
> >
> > Sandra Clark
> > ==============================
> > http://www.shayna.com
> > Training in Cascading Style Sheets and Accessibility
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 2:07 PM
> > To: CF-Talk
> > Subject: Re: Quicky question re: cfdocument and fonts
> >
> > Peter --
> >
> > Thanks for the idea, but I had also tried (prior to my original
> posting) the
> > inline style stuff such as you suggested -- and got exactly the same
> result.
> >
> > Any other ideas? There has to be some way to use cfdocument to
> generate a
> > PDF with a font other than Times Roman...
> >
> > -- LBA
> >
> > Quoting Peter Boughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > > What about if you try using <span style="font: Whatever;">..</span>
> ?
> > >
> > >
> > >> Howdy --
> > >>
> > >> I'm making my first use of cfdocument (no jokes about being behind
> > >> the times, please -- I've been busy with other things), and it
> seems
> > >> that no matter what I specify in the <font> tag inside the
> > >> cfdocument, the resulting PDF displays the content in the same
> Times
> > >> Roman font in whatever the default font size is (looks like about
> > >> 12). I tried lots of the different font faces listed on my CF
> > >> Administrator's Font Management page, but I keep getting the same
> > >> result. Have also tried both "yes" and "no" fontembed settings,
> > >> makes no difference.
> > >> For that matter, I can't even get it to pay attention to <font
> > >> size="whatever"> tags. The size of the type in the PDF is properly
> > >> affected by tags like <h1>, but <font> doesn't seem to be having
> any
> > >> effect at all.
> > >>
> > >> I searched around a bit before writing this post, and I found a
> > >> little bit of material alluding to there being some font problems
> > >> with cfdocument in 7.0, but it wasn't clear to me that Updater 1
> > >> really fixed it, as there seem to be some more recent hotfixes for
> > >> the same problem. I really couldn't find a good summary of the
> whole
> > >> issue.
> > >>
> > >> Bottom line: I'm running MX 7 (version 7,0,0,91690 -- again, no
> jokes
> > >> about behind the times; I believe in not fixing it if it ain't
> broke,
> > >> but now it's broke) on Linux. Can anybody tell me what I have to
> do
> > >> to get my cfdocument-produced PDFs to pay attention to my <font>
> > >> tags?
> > >>
> > >> -- Larry Afrin
> > >
> > >> Medical University of South Carolina
> > >
> > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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