Question

I am using <cfdocument> tag of coldfusion 7. Using CFEclipse and working on MacOS.
I have written the following code:

<cfdocument format="pdf">
 SitePoint.com - Introduction to ColdFusion 7
 PDF Generation
 This is an example of PDF generation using ColdFusion 7.
</cfdocument>

But instead of asking me to save this file in .pdf format, its trying to open it in .cfm format.
How can I save it in .pdf format? Thanks!

Answer 1

Unless you tell it otherwise, the webserver returns the results of a CFM call as text. You need to use CFContent with CFHeader to alert the browser that the results it will be recieving are of a different type. Something like:

<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="inline; filename=document.pdf"> 
<cfcontent type="application/x-pdf"> 
<cfdocument>...</cfdocument>

I may have the MIME type wrong there. I’m doing this from memory. Check the docs for more help.