Does anyone else get this problem or know a solution / workaround I could try as I’m running out of ideas? 🙁
I’m running this code on ColdFusion 9 – the idea is that it creates a PDF page (a front cover to a report) applies a watermark (a design I’ve been given with an orange background that I put my content on) and saves it for use later down the page.
The problem I’ve got is firstly I needed to turn backgroundvisible on in the cfdocument tag. Reason for this is I kept getting this white square showing on top of my produced page. When I do this though cfdocument then ignore any font colour changes I make it.
I’ve tried all kinds of combinations of trying to get this including styles, classes. internal / external CSS files but everytime ColdFusion defaults it to black.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do to get this showing in white?
<cfdocument format="pdf" marginbottom="0" marginleft="0.77" marginright="0" margintop="5" pageType="A4" unit="in" name="cover" backgroundvisible="false">
<cfoutput>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body style="color:##fff">
here
</body>
</html>
</cfoutput>
</cfdocument>
<cfpdf action="addWatermark" copyFrom="#coverFile#" source="cover" foreground="false" opacity="10" showonprint="true" />
<cfpdf action="write" destination='#PDFDir##frontCoverFile#' source="cover" overwrite="true" />
Thanks very much,
James
P.S. It maybe that a workaround has to be using CFIMAGE to produce this and then placing that in the page instead. I’d rather not though 🙁
Unfortunately in the case of this question I had to strip the PDF right back to basics.
I had more problems than just this but generally when it comes to PDF features in ColdFusion Adobe will certainly have to pull their fingers out as it’s really buggy 🙁