I am using tag of coldfusion 7. Using CFEclipse and working on Mac OS. 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. Please tell me how can I save it in .pdf format. Thanks!!
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.
If you are on CF8 or higher then use the saveAsName attribute:
<cfdocument saveAsName=""
Either that or the method suggested by Ben above should work
Try:
<cfdocument format="PDF" name="myPDF">
<html>
<body>
SitePoint.com - Introduction to ColdFusion 7
PDF Generation
This is an example of PDF generation using ColdFusion 7.
</body>
</html>
</cfdocument>
<cfpdf action = "write" destination = "pdf_path" source = "myPDF" overwrite = "yes"/>
<cflocation url="pdf_path"/>
Whis this you save the PDF on disk