Is it possilbe to save pdfs to a variable to be used later, rather than saving to a file?

[nikos101]

I am contiuing from an unresolved thread I done ages ago@

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/574764?decorator=print&displayFullThread=true

The point of interest is this:

Folks, I don't see anyone suggesting one feature that may help here. You don't really need to create files with these CFPDF* tags if you don't want to.

For  instance, as seems Paule's issue, if one tag creates something that  then another would use (as his CFPDFFORM result then being flattened),  you can use the NAME attribute (instead of destination) to indicate a  variable to hold the output of an earlier step, and then use that  variable in the SOURCE of a later step.

[nikos101]

Im trying to do something like this:

<cfpdfform source="#source#" name="test2" action="populate"  overwrite="yes" >
    <cfpdfformparam name="1" value="1">

  </cfpdfform>

  <cfmail type="html" to="nikos@test.com"
                from="wd"  subject="hi"
                        mimeattach="#test2#"

however I get the error:

The resource coldfusion.pdf.PDFDocWrapper@e9055b was not found.

any ideas cf experts???

nb if I do a dump of test2 I get this:

PDFDocument
Application	Adobe InDesign CS3 (5.0.4)
Author	[empty string]
CenterWindowOnScreen	no
ChangingDocument	Allowed
Commenting	Allowed
ContentExtraction	Allowed
CopyContent	Allowed
Created	D:20110620135354+01'00'
DocumentAssembly	Allowed
Encryption	No Security
FilePath	[empty string]
FillingForm	Allowed
FitToWindow	no
HideMenubar	no
HideToolbar	no
HideWindowUI	no
Keywords	[empty string]
Language	[empty string]
Modified	D:20110622160912+01'00'
PageLayout	SinglePage
PageRotations	PDFDocumentarray 1 0 2 0 3 0
PageSizes	PDFDocumentarray 1 PDFDocument - struct height 841.89 width 595.276 2 PDFDocument - struct height 841.89 width 595.276 3 PDFDocument - struct height 841.89 width 595.276

[Dan_Bracuk]

What happens if you try cfmailparam instead of mimeattach?

[nikos101]

I tried but get this:

It does not allow the attribute(s) CFMAILPARAM. The valid attribute(s) are BCC,CC,CHARSET,DEBUG,FAILTO,FROM,GROUP,GROUPCASESENSITIVE,KEYALIAS,KEYPASSWORD,KEYSTORE,KEYSTOREPASSWORD,MAILERID,MAXROWS,MIMEATTACH,PASSWORD,PORT,PRIORITY,QUERY,REMOVE,REPLYTO,SERVER,SIGN,SPOOLENABLE,STARTROW,SUBJECT,TIMEOUT,TO,TYPE,USERNAME,USESSL,USETLS,WRAPTEXT.   T

[Dan_Bracuk · Accepted solution]

It's a tag, not an attribute.

[nikos101]

thanks this produces the new pdf into a var:

  <cfpdfform source="#source#"
    name="test2" action="populate"  overwrite="yes"
    >

but how do I flatten this?

I am not allowed to dot his:

<cfpdf action="write" flatten="yes" source="#test2#"
  name="test2" overwrite="yes"> </cfpdf>

[Adam Cameron.]

I am not allowed to dot his:

<cfpdf action="write" flatten="yes" source="#test2#"
  name="test2" overwrite="yes"> </cfpdf>

"not allowed to"?  Why not?

--

Adam

[nikos101]

get this error:

The  file or directory  (C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\FLEX\bookingsystem\coldfusion.pdf.PDFDocWrapper@15be106)  specified in the source attribute in the CFPDF tag does not exist.

[Adam Cameron.]

How does the "source" variable get its value?

--

Adam

[nikos101]

<cfset source =  GetDirectoryFromPath(
GetCurrentTemplatePath()
) & "pdf/cont_Editable.pdf">

[Adam Cameron.]

And what does this output:

<cfoutput>

GetCurrentTemplatePath(): [#GetCurrentTemplatePath()#]<br />

source: [#source#]<br />

fileExists(source): [#fileExists(source)#]<br />

</cfoutput>

--
Adam