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java.io.IOException: Parsing problem

tjarko_NOSPAM-HONEYPOT_@carlosgallupa.com — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:10:48 GMT

Since updating to MX 8.01 i get the following error after producing a lot of PDF files. After restarting the service everything works fine again, but it's quite frustrating because restarting is the only solution so far.

After reading several blogs, forums etc etc i found out that more people experience this bug, bug Adobe doesn't seem to have discovered it... Could anyone point me in a direction to solve this problem.

Behavior description:
Every week I create a 500+ PDF files with a simple script that generates HTML and that's being transformed to a PDF.. works flawless. BUT... and there it is.. after this schedule task, other functions that work exactly the same.. html to pdf with cfdocument don't work anymore and produces the following error.

java.io.IOException: Parsing problem occured during the rendering process of this document.

Only restarting of the entire ColdFusion service solves it.. and because it's a production machine this isn't ideal. Can anyone (Adobe??) confirm this behavior. I really really would like to fix this bug because (as i said) it's frustrating to reboot the machine every week.

How to test your site from differenti countries?

tjarko_NOSPAM-HONEYPOT_@carlosgallupa.com — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:31:44 GMT

I was wondering if there is such a tool? To test your site coming from different countries based on the IP address. We are currently working on a worldwide website (nice name) and have different settings based on the country. Because we know some people abroad we can test the site through them but it's not that friendly to ask them each and everytime when we want to test some functionality

Does anybody know such a tool??

Open BlueDragon, looks promising

tjarko_NOSPAM-HONEYPOT_@carlosgallupa.com — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:05:39 GMT

http://openbluedragon.org/ look at it.. install the free VMware image and play around. It really really looks promising.

You can now have ColdFusion running totally free, and the best thing, they are working on an Amazon EC2 image file... Together with putting your files on Amazon s3 this will rock you boat. I hope I have the time to play with this new toy!!

Good thing I made the decision to switch from MSSQL to mySQL a couple of months ago, makes this switch a lot easier!!

An invalid spool file in the spool directory

tjarko_NOSPAM-HONEYPOT_@carlosgallupa.com — Tue, 06 May 2008 14:38:25 GMT

I have a strange and really annoying bug since running ColdFusion 8.01. The following error keeps coming back when i send mail with an attachment.

The ColdFusion mail spool encountered an invalid spool file in the spool directory. The invalid file Mail12734.cfmail was moved to the undelivered directory.

This is actually a known issue with ColdFusion version 7 but not with 8.01 which we are using at our company. Does anyone see the same behavior with there mail?? I would really like to clear this up!!

UPDATE
Here is one of the mails that can't be send.
type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
server: themailserver:25
from: from@from.com
to: to@to.com
subject: Bevestiging van inschrijving
X-Mailer: ColdFusion 8 Application Server
bodypart-start: text/html; charset=UTF-8
body:
body: L.S. 
body: 
body: Bijgesloten vindt u uw inschrijfbevestiging. 
body: 
body: Met vriendelijke groet, 
body: 
body: Manager Woonteam
body:
bodypart-end: text/html; charset=UTF-8
bodypart-start: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
bodypart-end: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
file: C:\data\websites\huurwoningwestfriesland.nl\repository\2005080071-I.pdf
file-type: application/pdf
file-disposition: attachment
remove: false

unexpected constant #2 58 for the administrator pages

tjarko_NOSPAM-HONEYPOT_@carlosgallupa.com — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:37:46 GMT

Hi,

Could someone help me out?? I deinstalled ColdFusion 7 because I had installed version 8 when it first came out. Last week I found the time to deinstall the 7 version but after I had done this it removed the CFIDE directory....

Luckily I have a staging server with the same setup and I copied the CFIDE directory from that server to the production machine (I had done this before and it worked) but since then I get the above error when trying to go to the administrator pages :-(

unexpected constant #2 58

Could anyone point me in right direction to fix this?? I really don't want to reinstall version 8 because there are too many settings.. and it's a production machine... HELP!!

Bug in Length of filename in cfmailparam?

tjarko_NOSPAM-HONEYPOT_@carlosgallupa.com — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:55:22 GMT

Can anyone acknowledge the following behaviour with the cfmailparam file tag in ColdFusion 8. When the filename of the attachment is longer or equals 32 characters you get a *.TMP file with the mail and not the original name?? It actually is the correct file, just not the correct name of the file.

Is this a bug or something i'm overlooking?

Bug in hotfix cfdocument?

tjarko_NOSPAM-HONEYPOT_@carlosgallupa.com — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:04:30 GMT

I just installed the hotfix for cfdocument on my Coldfusion 8 server and to my surprise the following does not work anymore, could anybody help??

 <cfdocumentitem type="footer">
    <cfif cfdocument.currentpagenumber eq 1>
        Do this only on the first page
    </cfif>
</cfdocumentitem>

I already reported this as a bug but maybe i'm doing it wrong?? This worked pre hotfix....

a new kid in town

tjarko_NOSPAM-HONEYPOT_@carlosgallupa.com — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:53:00 GMT

Hi, let me start by saying sorry that the blogposts on this website are, let's be honest not that frequent ;-) The reason for this is that as of 15 November 2007 i'm a fresh new dad of a baby boy named Tye (dutch language alert).

I will try to post a bit more in the coming weeks because we are growing really fast at our company and are busy with all sorts of interesting things... we actually made the choice to move all our database activity towards mySQL instead of MSSQL en some other changes are made that will insure the growth of our company.

For the people who still visit this site, please add it to your favorite feedreader and don't forget to fill in the new survey for the next major version of ColdFusion.

http://tinyurl.com/yoklqn

Using ColdFusion image functions to resize an image into a square thumbnail

tjarko_NOSPAM-HONEYPOT_@carlosgallupa.com — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 11:29:50 GMT

After trying several times to resize and crop the image to fit nicely into a square I stumbled upon the function ImageScaleToFit() and that was exactly what I needed for my problem. I want to fit an image into a square thumbnail, but with the imageCrop or Resize you can't get the image to fit. :-(

What I did is the following... after I found the ImageScaleToFit function I also found the ImagePaste function which will paste 1 image into the other. After thinking about this I came with the solution to first scale the image to the correct size, then make a new blank image with the imageNew() function and paste the 2 together.

With the ImagePaste() function you also need to calculate the x and y value where the image should be pasted upon the other image. See the code below for an example

The original image:

 <!---Read the image into an object --->
<cfimage action="read" name="myImage" source="65.jpg">

<!--- Set the square size of the thumb --->
<cfset sq_size = 200>

<!--- Write the result to a file. --->
<cfset ImageSetAntialiasing(myImage,"on")>
<cfset ImageScaleToFit(myImage,sq_size,sq_size)>

<!--- Calculate the x and y position to paste the image --->
<cfif myImage.width GTE myImage.height>
    <cfset x = 0>
    <cfset y = ceiling((myImage.width - myImage.height)/2)>
<cfelse>
    <cfset x = ceiling((myImage.height - myImage.width)/2)>
    <cfset y = 0>
</cfif>

<cfset newimg = ImageNew("",sq_size, sq_size, "rgb", "FF0000")>

<cfset ImagePaste(newimg, myImage, x, y)>

<cfimage action="WRITETOBROWSER" source="#newimg#" format="JPG">

The result image looks like this. Picture taken from www.wickedweasel.com

s3 REST wrapper with ACL and storage choice

tjarko_NOSPAM-HONEYPOT_@carlosgallupa.com — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:04:04 GMT

Based on the wonderful wrapper that Joe Danziger build about a year ago and the update that Steve Hicks made, I made the wrapper with extra storage choice. You can now choose if you want your bucket stored on the US data storage or in my case the European data storage.

Download the new and improved s3 REST wrapper

The modified code now takes into account the ACL and the STORAGE:

* putBucket(bucketName, acl, storage) - create a new bucket with the defined ACL and storage.

I have also modified the S3test.cfm so that it includes a drop down for the storage choice US or EU.

The s3.cfc now also takes into account the 307 redirect "error" you get when using EU storage. All the methods have changed to work with the "new-style" REST API and the 307 redirect. The 2 functions that get this "error" are deleteBucket and putObject, i haven't tested the deleteObject code but if this doesn't work just copy/paste the 307 bit from the other methods.

Enjoy!! And if someone could improve the code that would be even better!! This was a quick fix and it could probably improve here en there :-)

UPDATE: I forgot to mention that I don't use the getObject method to get my files... so that method is not working in this exampel. I use the host mybucket.s3.amazonaws.com/filelocation way of getting to the file.