Coldfusion CFPDF

Question

I am trying to use cfpdf and keep getting the following error:

String index out of range: -1

I don't understand why. I'm running ColdFusion 11 on Debian Linux.

<CFIF FileExists("#getDirectoryFromPath(getCurrentTemplatePath())#REPORT.pdf")>
    <cfpdfform 
        action="read" 
        source="#getDirectoryFromPath(getCurrentTemplatePath())#REPORT.pdf" xmldata="x" 
        result="r">
    </cfpdfform>

    <cfdump var="#x#" label="XMLData">
    <cfdump var="#r#" label="Result">
<CFELSE>
    File doesn't exist
</CFIF>

Exact error:

String index out of range: -1 

 The error occurred in /var/www/www.test.com/test.cfm: line 2

1 : <CFIF FileExists("#getDirectoryFromPath(getCurrentTemplatePath())#REPORT.pdf")>
2 : <cfpdfform 
action="read" 
source="#getDirectoryFromPath(getCurrentTemplatePath())#REPORT.pdf" 
xmldata="x" result="r">
3 : </cfpdfform>
4 : <cfdump var="#x#" label="XMLData">

Answer 1

I have had similar issues in the past. The problem has been using non Adobe programs to create the pdf - making a pdf form in Libreoffice, for example, can cause this issue. I assume some internal formatting in the file that CF is looking for is missing.

You can try opening in Acrobat and resaving it.