> CFDOCUMENT has been the bane of my existence for years. Check out this simple
> dynamic PDF packaging code which should work...
>
> <CFSET PAGEARRAY = [] />
> <CFLOOP from="1" to="3" index="i">
> <CFDOCUMENT FORMAT="PDF" NAME="PDFPAGE">
> <html><body><div
> style="background:url(http://www.houseoffusion.com/_/hof120.gif)"><BR> </div></body></html>
> </CFDOCUMENT>
> <cfset arrayappend(PAGEARRAY,PDFPAGE) />
> </CFLOOP>
> <CFDOCUMENT FORMAT="PDF" NAME="PDFPAGE">
> <html><body><div
> style="background:url(http://www.houseoffusion.com/_/hof120.gif)"><BR> </div></body></html>
> </CFDOCUMENT>
> <cfset arrayappend(PAGEARRAY,PDFPAGE) />
> <CFPDF action="merge" name="FINALPDF">
> <cfloop from="1" to="#arraylen(PAGEARRAY)#" index="i">
> <cfset pointer = PAGEARRAY[i]/>
> <cfpdfparam source="pointer">
> </cfloop>
> </CFPDF>
> <cfcontent type="application/pdf" variable="#tobinary(FINALPDF)#">
>
> If you run this (on CF8 or CF9 - not tried 10) you will notice that the image
> appears only on the first and last page! Why?
> Because CFDocument ignores background images after the first call when in a
> loop. I was able to prove this by putting
> the call into a CFINCLUDE inside the loop. But then, if you add a
> CFDOCUMENTITEM to it, it throws an error: "Routines
> cannot be declared more than once". According to Adobe there was a hotfix for
> this in CF8, although it did not work for me.
>
> Anyone know CFDoc well enough to present another solution?
I would expect you can solve this problem by using unique names within
your loop:
<cfloop from="1" to="3" index="i">
<cfdocument ... name="pdfpage_01_#i#">...</cfdocument>
...
<cfdocument ... name="pdfpage_02_#i#">...</cfdocument>
...
</cfloop>
Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
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