PDF Generation has problems

Hi there,
Our company uses Colffusion to make PDFs for our client.
Recently, the PDF generation is incredible instable, causing
corrupt PDF files or performance issues.
I found out, that the problem lies within the including some
picture. This slows down almost everything or sometimes the
generation does not happen at all.
Is there a solution for this? Is there a hot fix for that?
Thanks for your reply

Try <cfreport> instead of <cfdocument> which give
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: Do note that the reports are running fine, when the report has
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