TechNote

ColdFusion 8: CFDocument Cumulative Hot Fix

Issue

The following ColdFusion 8 issues for CFDocument have been resolved:

ID	Description
70239	CFDocument in ColdFusion 8 was producing documents that were smaller than same document produced in ColdFusion MX 7. Note: This same hot fix is part of chf8000001. No problem is caused by this duplication.
70388	Using multiple cfdocumentitems in a document caused the error, "routines cannot be declared more than once."
70403	StackOverFlow errors occurred when a large document is created. A simple report with over 1500 lines has caused this problem. More complex, but shorter documents have also resulted in this error.
70491	PDFs produced by Cfdocument were missing extended character encoding.
70555	Horizontal scaling differs from previous versions of cfdocument with additional spacing being added.

This hot fix was updated January 30, 2008, and the ZIP file size is 155k. If you have a previous version of this hot fix, then replace your existing hf800-70403.jar. Follow the instructions below for uninstalling the jar file.

Solution

Use the ColdFusion 8 Administrator to install cumulative hot fixes.

The installation process is the same for all platforms and installation choices.

Download hf800-70403.zip (155k) and extract the hf800-70403.jar and taglib.cftld files.
Open the ColdFusion 8 Administrator and select the System Information page.
Next to the Update File field, select the Browse Button and browse to the extracted jar file. Select the hf800-70403.jar file and click Submit.
Rename the cf_webroot/WEB-INF/cftags/META-INF/taglib.cftld to *.bak. Replace with the new version from the attached zip file. The WEB-INF directory is under coldfusion8/wwwroot for ColdFusion server and under jrun4/servers/ServerName/cfusion-ear/cfusion-war/ for ColdFusion multi-server installations.
Restart ColdFusion.

The hf800-70403 hot fix JAR file does not need to be retained after installing it with the ColdFusion Administrator. The file has been copied into the correct location.

The hf800-70403.jar hot fix file will appear as a new entry in the System Information classpath list.

Hot fixes are installed in the cf_root\lib\updates directory. After stopping the ColdFusion 8 application server, delete a specific jar file from the updates directory in order to uninstall that hot fix. Removal of this hot fix will also require you to delete the new WEB-INF/cftags/META-INF/taglib.cftld and to restore the original version.