Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / April 2006

I'll suppose you realize that cfdocument simply takes a PDF "snapshot" of the
content of the tag. Hence, even if your code works, it will not display the
HTML from the included file. Take even an intuitive alternative like

<cfsavecontent variable="content">
<cfinclude template="OrderForm#form.ManufacturerID#.cfm">
</cfsavecontent>
<cfdocument format="pdf" filename="d:\benchmark\pdf\#filename#.pdf"
overwrite="yes">   
        <cfoutput>#content#</cfoutput>
</cfdocument>

It, too, will create a PDF containing the contents of the included file, and
store it in d:\benchmark\pdf\. However, as before, no content is displayed on
the current page.

The only other issue I can think of is an error in the included file. To
eliminate that possibility, verify that the following code runs

<!--- <cfset filename = filename & ".pdf"> --->
<!--- <cfdocument format="pdf" filename="d:\benchmark\pdf\#filename#"
overwrite="yes"> --->   
        <cfinclude template="OrderForm#form.ManufacturerID#.cfm">
<!--- </cfdocument> --->