Adobe 38043740 - ColdFusion Standard - Mac Development Manual page 926

DEVELOPING COLDFUSION 9 APPLICATIONS
Working with Documents, Charts, and Reports
ColdFusion XDP files contain the XDP XML code and the PDF image. Therefore, the file size is larger than a PDF file.
Only write PDF forms to XDP files if you must incorporate them into the LiveCycle Designer workflow on a LiveCycle
server.
Writing PDF output to an XML file
ColdFusion lets you extract data from a PDF form and write the output to an XML data file. To do so, you must save
the form output as a PDF file. (The
To write the output of a PDF file to an XML file, use the
shows:
<cfpdfform action="read" source="#empForm.txtsheet#.pdf"
XMLdata="timesheets\#empForm.txtsheet#.xml"/>
To save disk space, you can delete the PDF file and maintain the XML data file. As long as you keep the blank PDF
form used as the template, you can use the
populating forms, see "Populating a PDF form with XML
Extracting data from an HTTP post submission
For an HTTP post submission, use the
follows:
<cfdump var="#FORM.form1#">
Note: When you extract data from an HTTP post submission, always specify the form name as the source. For example,
specify for a form generated from a standard template in LiveCycle.
"#FORM.form1#"
Notice that the structure is not necessarily the same as the structure of the PDF file used as the template (before
submission). For example, the structure of a form before submission could look like the following example:
struct
form1 struct
txtDeptName
txtEMail
txtEmpID
txtFirstName
txtLastName
txtPhoneNum
After submission by using HTTP post, the resulting structure would look like the following example:
struct
FORM1 struct
tag source must always be a PDF file.)
cfpdfform
action of the
read
action to regenerate the PDF file. For more information on
populate
data" on page 915.
tag with the form name as the variable to display the data structure, as
cfdump
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tag, as the following example
cfpdfform
[empty string]
[empty string]
[empty string]
[empty string]
[empty string]
[empty string]
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