That is expected behaviour, cf will only output the.content of a variable, it will not process the content looking for any cfml. You need to use evaluate function to process variables inside content, but I doubt that will work on tags,.so cfinclude is the best way.
Regards Russ Michaels www.michaels.me.uk www.cfmldeveloper.com - Free CFML hosting for developers www.cfsearch.com - CF search engine On Feb 21, 2013 7:42 PM, "Robert Harrison" <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm using cfdocument to create a pdf document. I'm using a variable string > that contains HTML code and <cfdocumentitem > type="pagebreak"></cfdocumentitem> for page breaks. > > If I output the variable in the pdf document (like below) it ignores the > page break commands, even though they are correct in the var string. > > <cfdocument format="PDF" filename="my.pdf" overwrite="yes"> > <cfoutput>#myContent#<cfoutput> > </cfdocument> > > > If I save the variable string to a text file then use the text file as in > include (like below), it works. > > <cfdocument format="PDF" filename="my.pdf" overwrite="yes"> > <cfinclude template="myContent.txt"> > </cfdocument> > > Seems like <cfdocumentitem type="pagebreak"></cfdocumentitem> should work > when it's in a var string (all the HTML works fine), but it's not. So why > is the page break ignored when it's in an output string but work when it's > text. The string and the text are identical. I'd really like to skip the > step of writing a text file first. > > Any hints? > > Thanks, > > Robert Harrison > Director of Interactive Services > > Austin & Williams > Advertising I Branding I Digital I Direct > 125 Kennedy Drive, Suite 100 I Hauppauge, NY 11788 > T 631.231.6600 X 119 F 631.434.7022 > http://www.austin-williams.com > > Blog: http://www.austin-williams.com/blog > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/austin_ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:354618 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
