ColdFusion Matt | 18 Sep 2008 09:36 am
PDFFileNotFoundException Inside IsPDFFile and IsPDFObject
I’m having a heck of a time using pdf document variables in CF 8.0.1 on Mac OS X 10.5 and Redhat Linux ES 5. Those are the only platforms I have to test cf with so perhaps this is a windows issue as well.
From Adobe’s IsPDFObject documentation, I’ve taken their example of reading in a file as a pdf object and writing it out. I’ve even gone the extra step of making sure cf thinks the input file is a valid pdf.
<cfif IsPDFFile("filein.pdf")>
<cfpdf source="filein.pdf" action="read" name="myPDFform"/>
<cfif IsPDFObject(myPDFform)>
<cfpdf source=#myPDFform# action="write" destination = "fileout.pdf">
<cfelse>
<p>This is not a PDF.</p>
</cfif>
</cfif>
CF thinks the file is a pdf, it reads the file, it thinks the pdf document variable is valid, then when it tries to write, I get an error:
The file or directory (/Library/WebServer/Documents/coldfusion.pdf.PDFDocWrapper@1547134d) specified in the source attribute in the CFPDF tag does not exist.
The error occurred in /Library/WebServer/Documents/test.cfm: line 4
2 : <cfpdf source="filein.pdf" action="read" name="myPDFform"/>
3 : <cfif IsPDFObject(myPDFform)>
4 : <cfpdf source=#myPDFform# action="write" destination = "fileout.pdf">
5 : <cfelse>
6 : <p>This is not a PDF.</p>
Given where CF seems to be generating a temp file I could see this being a problem on my Linux box where cf can’t write to the webroot. That would not be a problem on my local dev environment though where I can write to the webroot. On both machines I can successfully access pdf files themselves and write to different files to add watermarks, get and set info, etc. I just cannot work with the pdf document variable at all. The last pdf file I tested with here was the CF 8.0.1 release notes from Adobe at around 250k.
When I get a solution to this issue, I’ll post it. If anyone has any thoughts here I’m all ears. Hopefully someone can point out that I’m doing something stupid and share a correction. Otherwise I’ll submit a bug to Adobe.
on 20 Apr 2009 at %I:%M %p 1.Pope said …
I know this is pretty old, and you probably already found a solution, but for completeness, and because you asked me to…
“coldfusion.pdf.PDFDocWrapper@1547134d” says you are indeed working with a pdf object. You are trying to pass that object as a source when the CFPDF tag is looking for a file name, or the name of a valid pdf object. Not the actual pdf object itself.
Take off the pound signs and wrap it in quotes. Your example then works more or less as a copy action would.
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