Description

Determines whether a value is a PDF object.

Returns

True, if the value represents a PDF object. False if the value is any other type of data, such as an integer, string, date, or structure.

Category

Decision functions

Function syntax

IsPDFObject(value)

See also

IsDate, IsImage, IsNumeric, IsNumericDate, IsObject, IsPDFFile, IsQuery, IsSimpleValue, IsStruct, IsWDDX, IsXmlDoc, IsXmlElem, IsXmlRoot, cfpdf, cfpdfform

History

ColdFusion 8: Added this function.

Parameters

Usage

This function returns False for query and XML objects.

Example

<cfpdf source="c:\forms\quoteform.pdf" action="read" name="myPDFform"/>
<cfif IsPDFObject(myPDFform)>
    <cfpdf source=#myPDFform# action="write" destination = "c:\forms\newPDFForm.pdf">
<cfelse>
    <p>This is not a PDF.</p>
</cfif>