cfdocument PDF displays links improperly

[stevelionbird]

ok this one has been burning my brain. If I have html that contains links, and try to output it as a PDF using cfdocument, a huge space and elongated underline beneath the link is always displayed and I cannot figure out how to fix this.

To my surprise, I haven't found anyone else complaining about this so it makes me wonder if I'm doing something wrong, but I used a simple test and got the same results. Here is the code:

[maroon]<cfdocument format=[/maroon][blue]"pdf"[/blue][maroon]>[/maroon]
This is a very very basic test with a [green]<a href=[/green][blue]"[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.example.com/"[/URL][/blue][green]>[/green]link[green]</a>[/green].

[navy]<p>[/navy]This is a very very basic test with a [green]<a href=[/green][blue]"[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.example.com/"[/URL][/blue][green]>[/green]link[green]</a>[/green].[navy]</p>[/navy]

[navy]<div>[/navy]This is a very very basic test with a [green]<a href=[/green][blue]'[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.example.com/'[/URL][/blue][green]>[/green]link[green]</a>[/green].[navy]</div>[/navy]
[maroon]</cfdocument>[/maroon]

When I run this, it looks like this:

This is a very very basic test with a [blue]link [/blue].
This is a very very basic test with a [blue]link [/blue].
This is a very very basic test with a [blue]link [/blue].

Does anyone know why this is happening and/or what the work-around is?? Regardless, it's disappointing and sad that something so simple is being converted so poorly.

Many thanks,
Steve

 

[LyndonOHRC]

I don't get the output you described. Mine is as expected with your code.

Could it be your reader? I'm using Adobe Reader 6.0


Lyndon

---People Remember about 10% of what you say ---They never forget how you made them feel. Covey

 

[stevelionbird]

Interesting .. I ran another test on a machine running CF 8 dev edition (Windows OS) and it displays fine. My prod server is running mx 7 (Linux) so it looks like rather then an Acrobat problem, it is a CF problem.

Lyndon, what kind of setup did you run this on?

I'm going to run a few more tests and try to iron this one out.

Thanks,
Steve

 

[LyndonOHRC]

I'm on a CF 8 - hosted site.

HostMySite.com
ColdFusion Server 8,0,0,176276
Enterprise
Windows 2003

It's no surprise the <cfdocument> on CF 7.x has problems. They were never worked out, and too numerous to list here.

Now that I'm on 8.x I haven't found any problems generating PDF's



Lyndon

---People Remember about 10% of what you say ---They never forget how you made them feel. Covey

 

[stevelionbird]

Thanks Lyndon ..

Yeah I'm gonna have to make the move to 8 - it's time!

-Steve

 

[LyndonOHRC]

Steve,

You might want to look this over before you move production to CF 8.
More important cfdocument information
Good Luck

Lyndon

---People Remember about 10% of what you say ---They never forget how you made them feel. Covey