Re: cfpdfform and PDF Dynamic XML Forms
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 koldfu...@gmail.com 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
Re: cfpdfform and PDF Dynamic XML Forms
Hey Mark, thanks for the suggestion. Not sure why i didn't think of that. It did give me some additional info, albeit I don't think it gets me any further ahead. java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1 at java.lang.String.substring(String.java:1938) at coldfusion.pdf.XFADataXMLGenerator.createFormXMLData(XFADataXMLGenerator.java:94) at coldfusion.tagext.lang.PDFFormTag.doEndTag(PDFFormTag.java:276) at cfjustareminder2ecfm765021945._factor10(C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wma.org\members\forms\repository\print\justareminder.cfm:27) at cfjustareminder2ecfm765021945._factor11(C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wma.org\members\forms\repository\print\justareminder.cfm:24) at cfjustareminder2ecfm765021945.runPage(C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wma.org\members\forms\repository\print\justareminder.cfm:1) at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:192) at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:366) at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage._emptyTag(CfJspPage.java:2644) at cfinterface2ecfm27561726._factor43(C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wma.org\members\forms\interface.cfm:493) at cfinterface2ecfm27561726._factor46(C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wma.org\members\forms\interface.cfm:489) at cfinterface2ecfm27561726._factor16(C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wma.org\members\forms\interface.cfm) at cfinterface2ecfm27561726._factor50(C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wma.org\members\forms\interface.cfm:482) at cfinterface2ecfm27561726.runPage(C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\wma.org\members\forms\interface.cfm:1) at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:192) at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:366) at coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.invoke(CfincludeFilter.java:65) at coldfusion.filter.ApplicationFilter.invoke(ApplicationFilter.java:273) at coldfusion.filter.RequestMonitorFilter.invoke(RequestMonitorFilter.java:48) at coldfusion.filter.MonitoringFilter.invoke(MonitoringFilter.java:40) at coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.java:86) at coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:70) at coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePersistenceFilter.java:28) at coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38) at coldfusion.filter.NoCacheFilter.invoke(NoCacheFilter.java:46) at coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38) at coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22) at coldfusion.filter.RequestThrottleFilter.invoke(RequestThrottleFilter.java:126) at coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:175) at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:89) at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:86) at coldfusion.monitor.event.MonitoringServletFilter.doFilter(MonitoringServletFilter.java:42) at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapFilter.doFilter(BootstrapFilter.java:46) at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:94) at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.service(FilterChain.java:101) at jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker.java:106) at jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvokerChain.java:42) at jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java:284) at jrun.servlet..ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java:543) at jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable(JRunProxyService.java:203) at jrunx..scheduler.ThreadPool$DownstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:320) at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:428) at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$UpstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:266) at jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66) ~| 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:319311 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: cfpdfform and PDF Dynamic XML Forms
I figured this out. For some reason, when working with Dynamic XML Forms, you must specify overwritedata=true to the cfpdfform tag. The PDFs are now generating correctly. As a side note, when you use Dynamic XML Forms for your PDFs it does not look like you can use cfpdf to flatten the documents. The resulting document, when opened, states you need a newer version of Acrobat to view the document. If anyone knows a way around this it would be appreciated ~| 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:319319 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
cfpdfform and PDF Dynamic XML Forms
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:319302 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
