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CF7 cfdocument's display 30% smaller on CF8

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August 29, 2007
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We have copied existing CF7 cfdocument' page to a new Coldfusion 8 server and when the pages are run the resulting pdf and flashpaper display 30% smaller on CF8.

Both the Fonts and the images and the tables are all scaled down by about 30% in size. We have a lot of these documents so, we not be able to upgrade, its a real show stopper. Its like the effective display area has been scaled fit into about 70% of the page area.

I have searched for a people reporting the same issues but found no one reporting this. Has anyone seen this and is there a fix

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Correct answer LeenTech

THIS IS NOW FIXED IN THE ColdFusion 8.0 Cumulative Hot Fix 1

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb402466&sliceId=1

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jlm23

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Yeah! I still see a minor rendering difference, but an hour of coding should fix it.

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LeenTechAuthorCorrect answer

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THIS IS NOW FIXED IN THE ColdFusion 8.0 Cumulative Hot Fix 1

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb402466&sliceId=1

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LeenTechAuthor

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Yes this is not an CF7 7,0,2, problem, its OK with us.

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jlm23

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This work fine inCF7 7,0,2,142559

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Aquitaine

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We are also having this problem and did not discover it until 24 hours before the PDFs we need to generate are mission-critical.

I hope this issue receives fairly immediate attention. I certainly have a bit of egg on my face for recommending the CF8 upgrade now.

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Anonymous

I've actually known about this issue since MX 7 Updater 2. We're still on MX 7,0,0,x as a result of this issue. We have hundreds of thousands of lines of code that we'd have to adjust if we were to ever consider upgrading to anything. I'm sure most of you are aware that one small change in the cfdocument tag results in other parts of the layout to crap out. It's really quite annoying and I wish that Adobe would spend more time tweaking this piece of their software.

Another issue I have regarding the cfdocument tag has to do with images rendering rather poorly; fuzzy to be exact (even PNG with 96 DPI which is recommended by Adobe). This is the top complaint from ALL of my clients and I have to sit there and say "I'm sorry, there's nothing I can do about it." And then, to add more fuel to the fire, if you have a lot of images (using the HTML "img" tag), most of the time the images scale or are chopped off on the right and bottom edges...very annoying! :) I would do the work myself via iText but that's what ColdFusion uses anyway so there's really no point to waste my time and lose money in the mean time.

It's a great start (2+ years, actually) but it's just not a very well designed component. Anyway, I'm glad that's off of my chest. Unfortunately, I do not see Adobe fixing this any time soon. :(

BKBK

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I've actually known about this issue since MX 7 Updater 2. We're still on MX 7,0,0,x as a result of this issue.

Not a wise decision, in my opinion. If necessary, you should at least have installed MX7.0.2 and applied the hotfixes. MX7.0.2 surpasses MX7.0.0 in many ways.

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Tomdogggg

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I'm having the same problem, very frusterating!!!

BKBK

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Leentech wrote:
So if that is an issue why are the images 30% smaller as well. Adobe has a problem it would good if they admitted it or gave suggestions on how to get round it.

One work-around is to adjust an appropriate size property, as daveL (#@!) does. He sets a table's width attribute to 100%.

Jlm23 wrote:
I figured out the font problem. I have CF8 installed on Mac OS X. CF doesn't have arial available to it.

Really no Arial? In any case, in Coldfusion 8 you can register your own font in the Coldfusion Administration.

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jlm23

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In my case the font stuff IS done using CSS.

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LeenTechAuthor

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This has nothing to do with the problem and willl make no difference as everything within the cfdocument tag is 30% smaller on Coldfusion 8 than it was on 7. We have loads of these cfdocuments pages.

BKBK

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Leentech wrote:
So if that [using font element] is an issue

Replace the font element with the equivalent CSS, and you have one problem less. That's all I wanted to say.

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