TJ - Just some random thoughts -
1) if you run cf from the console, do you see any errors in there? An exception stack trace may be helpful. 2) If you put a try/catch around it, and dump the cfcatch, do you see anything special? Sometimes it can show you Java errors you wouldn't otherwise see. Mark On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:43 PM, TJ Downes <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have been banging my head on this issue for a couple of days and hope > someone has some experience to offer. > > We are replacing PDFs generated by cfdocument with PDF templates developed > in LiveCycle Designer, due to the issues we have had trying to get our > results to be consistent. I have what I feel is a solid PDF Form template > going,and I can populate the form using cfpdfform. The one issue I am having > is trying to get flowable content working. If you have worked with LiveCycle > Designer you will know what flowable content is. If you haven't, its the > ability to allow users to fill in data in a PDF form and the PDF will expand > to fit the content. > > I have this working (flowable content) in the PDF only when I save it as a > "Dynamic XML Form". I can add data to my form fields and the document > expands as expected. This behavior does not occur when saved as a standard > PDF Form. From the limited information i have read, this is by design. > > When I save the document as a Dynamic XML Form and try to populate it with > CF I get the following error: An exception has occurred in the processing of > PDF forms. '' > > Pretty vague. Yes, this is even with debugging enabled :) > > I can't seem to do anything to populate the Dynamic PDF Form without > causing this error. What's odd is that I can read the document just fine. I > can populate it manually, and a cfdump shows the data as an XML structure > (that's good!). I can also use the same method to populate a standard PDF > Form, both using XML and <cfpdfformparam>. The only thing that isn't working > is populating the Dynamic XML Form from CF. > > Can someone tell me if this is unsupported, or if there is a workaround? We > sincerely hate the cfdocument method we have been using, cfpdfform has made > this so much faster, cleaner and more reliable. > > I would be happy to provide a copy of my template from LiveCycle Designer > as well as a code sample. > > Thanks > TJ Downes > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:319306 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
