In reviewing the CFHTMLTOPDF tag, it seemed like it would meet our needs. Everything seemed to test well until things went into production.
Continuous requests caused the following error:
The content of this document process takes more than 60 milliseconds to process.This timeout value is obtained from the request timeout set in the ColdFusion Administrator. The specific sequence of files included or processed is: C:\Applications\cliq\apps\students\print.cfm, line: 26
I was able to easily overload the our test and development servers to cause the same error by repeatedly calling a page with the CFHTMLTOPDF tag.
Our interim solution was to restart to the Coldfusion Addon Services on the Windows 2012 server. But I don't think this is ideal as it seems like a relatively low threshhold to be able to crash the process.
Does anyone know of any documentation or settings that could be set to avoid this issue? We are currently on CF 11 Update 4 Enterprise Edition.
All the best,
Terry