Displaying images in a ColdFusion Report (cfr)

I am playing around with graphs and reports. The requirement
is to be able to produce reports in PDF and/or RTF with graphs
included. Overall cfdocument may be my solution but it does not
have the rtf option.
One solution I was testing was using WebChart3D code to
create the images and then passing the location of the images into
a Cold Fusion Report for display. I did this by creating a simply
query with one column holding the location of the three graphs I
have. All the report does is display a single chart per page.*
This works great on my XP laptop but when I moved it to our
linux box I get an error saying “No such file or
directory”. I have checked both directory and file are there.
And yes it lists the correct directory and file (case matched). So
I am wondering if it is a permissions issue. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Joel
* Yes I know Report Builder allows you to create graphs.
However, we have a requirement for the graphs themselves that so
far I have not been able to meet using the Report Builder graphing
tool even though it is quite good.

Don't know if this answers your issue with report builder,
but with cfdocument, apparently ColdFusion engine must be able to
resolve embedded images and files fully. Maybe it's also the case
with report builder? The fix involves simple host file change. See
this post on CFTalk:
http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/messages.cfm/forumid:4/threadid:46071
Cheers,
Kris

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