Cfcontent of PDF

I am send a PDF file like that:
<cfcontent deletefile="yes" file="#session.file#"
type="application/pdf">
the acrobat opens with IE with the url being the cfm page of
the cfcontent like this:
http://myweb/sendpdf.cfm
if the user clicks on the acrobat "attach this pdf file as
new email" they are presented with options either to send as Link
or Copy.
If the as Link is clicked a message with the url is created
which is not desired.
if the Copy is clicked than to PDF file is attached with a
name "sendpdf.cfm.pdf"
1. can i disable the as Link option?
2. can i preset a better file name for Copy?

Finally figured this out...
Since the file exists on the server, there's no need to use cfpdf and cfcontent to serve up the PDF.
When the PDF link is clicked, the user is directed to a page that has the security framework where there is a redirect to the PDF on the server. I have the PDF password protected. The PDF opens in the browser and, if saved, is saved with the file name only instead of the whole url+filename.
Learning to work with CF and PDFs through cfdocument and cfpdf lately has been somewhat frustratingly fun.(!) I guess it was overkill in trying to do the above when all I needed was a direct link to the file itself.
Hope this will help someone else...
- e

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Create a page parameter by name "p_cost_centre".
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<cfcontent type="application/pdf"
file="D:\hshome\lamtrac1\pdf\#filename#" deletefile="No">
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help????????

mbdooly wrote:
> Hello all-
> I am having an issue with the tags cfheader and
cfcontent. This is the code I
> am using:
>
> <cfheader name="Content-Disposition"
value="filename=Jurisdictionary.exe">
Try value="attachment; filename=""Jurisdictionary.exe"""
Mack

CFCONTENT pdf error

Hi
I recieve an error when I open the pdf generated in CF using the following code...
<cfcontent type="application/pdf">
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123
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Thanks
Regards
Delon

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D.

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<cfheader name="Content-Length" value="#variables.FileSizeBytes#" />
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Content-Length:31739
Content-Type:application/pdf;charset=UTF-8
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Server:Microsoft-IIS/7.5
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Content-Type:application/pdf;charset=UTF-8
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Random error when using cfpdfform to create pdf

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>>
<<
/T(address1)
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<<
/T(address2)
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<<
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<<
/T(zip)
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http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.3c052176

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- e

Finally figured this out...
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- e

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3. Checked off the text-field "Rich Text Formatting" property
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I store PDF file as BLOB data type on Oracle. There are cases
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multiple PDF files. They have to be merged and displayed on the web
page. I tried CFContent which can display only one PDF file at a
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BALAJI_JAY wrote:
> Can you anybody please help me out? Please let me know
if you have any
> questions or this does not make sense to you.
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