Which seems weird to me too because docs show exam...
# adobes
sharondio
03/10/2025, 5:08 PMWhich seems weird to me too because docs show examples without that. Hmmm.
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Brian Lang
03/10/2025, 5:09 PMThis still gives an error there os no body or source file.
cfhtmltopdf(name="local.pdf") {
"<html><head></head><body><h1>This is a test</h1></body></html>";
};
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sharondio
03/10/2025, 5:10 PMI don't know what else to try, so I think we might be in bug/java version weirdness realm.
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Brian Lang
03/10/2025, 5:11 PMWhen I edit the source document to be full HTML with html, head and body tags, instead of just a <table>, I still get the same errors.
Brian Lang
03/10/2025, 5:12 PMI guess I revert to cfdocument
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aliaspooryorik
03/10/2025, 5:15 PM
Can you try:
aliaspooryorik
03/10/2025, 5:15 PM
```cfhtmltopdf(name="local.pdf") {
writeoutput("<html><head></head><body><h1>This is a test</h1></body></html>");
};
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Matt Jones
03/10/2025, 5:15 PMyour function version would still need writeOutput around your string. And you said the tag version of cfhtmltopdf was working?
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aliaspooryorik
03/10/2025, 5:16 PM
Ha - just beat you to it 🙂
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aliaspooryorik
03/10/2025, 5:16 PM
but yes, I think that's it
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Brian Lang
03/10/2025, 5:17 PMcfhtmltopdf(name="local.pdf") {
writeoutput("<html><head></head><body><h1>This is a test</h1></body></html>");
};
This still gives "Element PDF is undefined in LOCAL."
If I try defining local.pdf first,
local.pdf = '';
I get an empty string
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aliaspooryorik
03/10/2025, 5:19 PM
Is this inside a function?
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Brian Lang
03/10/2025, 5:19 PMYes
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aliaspooryorik
03/10/2025, 5:19 PM
So I wonder if it's a nested function under the hood, so
localaliaspooryorik
03/10/2025, 5:19 PM
Last grasp at a passing straw...
aliaspooryorik
03/10/2025, 5:20 PM
Copy code
function go() {
var result = "";
cfhtmltopdf(name="result") {
writeoutput("<html><head></head><body><h1>This is a test</h1></body></html>");
};
return result;
}aliaspooryorik
03/10/2025, 5:21 PM
I do hate this horrible sort-of-custom-tag-wrapper for modules in cfscript
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Brian Lang
03/10/2025, 5:22 PMI'm calling cfhtmltopdf in a function, but using it to store the variable in memory to immediately attach it to an email via cfmail. This works with cfdocument, but is failing with cfhtmltopdf. As I mentioned in the other thread, it looks like the pdf service is offline. So I'm looking into that now
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aliaspooryorik
03/10/2025, 5:22 PM
Oh, OK. Didn't see the other thread
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Brian Lang
03/10/2025, 5:26 PMNo worries. I need to move on anyway, so I'm reverting to cfdocument for now