cfdocument hangs

[focused]

We have been generating pdfs for several weeks with no problem. All of the
sudden earlier today, the browser started to hang whenever we get to a
cfdocument tag. Sometimes it works, sometimes the browser hangs. The jrun
process remains at around 40-50% CPU. We have rebooted the server,
stopped/started the CF service. Nothing seems to correct the problem. We tried
with simple 'test' cfdocument files. Still hanging. Anyone else having problems
with page freezing? I'm afraid to move to production if this isn't going to
work reliably.

thanks
Doug

[Hanszon]

Hi Doug,

Had a bit of trouble with this tag myself, discovered that the following will
cause it to hang:

1) Improperly nested HTML tags or block tags (div, p, table etc) not closed,
even though the page may display in the browser.
2) DB query errors - just see a white page, no error message or hint. The
only way to isolate this was to remove the cfdocument tags and output the page
as HTML.

In addition, I have found the poor CSS support causes pages to behave in weird
ways - like truncating overflowing columns when using a "float:left" on a table
instead of flowing onto a second page.

I doubt this is much help because you say you've been generating PDFs for a
while and you tried a simple doc too, but you never know ...

[focused]

Thanks for the info. I just heard of a production server with the same problem
- cpu hung at high usage % and pdf doesn't appear. If they don't get this
corrected...this could become a major problem for them. Were you able to clear
things up by 'cleaning' up the code?

Thanks again.

[Ghost of Rick James]

I am having exactly the same problem. Macromedia... please put this one on the priority list. An acknowledgement that this is a problem would be a great start.