Coldfusion cfdocument to pdf loses css styling

Question

I am trying to use cfdocument to create a pdf with the same styling as a html page.

If I run the cfm the resulting output ina browser is what I would expect. Wrapping the same code in a cfdocument tag, set for pdf, losses rounded corners on some divs created using border-radius.

There is also some background color not working that is applied using the mark tag.

All the css is in the cfm file in between the cfdocument tags. I have have even included the html5 doc type as the first row after the opening cfdocument tag.

Any issues with this that I am not aware of and suggestions to get around it?

Answer 1

Cfdocument doesn't fully support CSS, I too have learned this the hard way. This article may be helpful. It says it only supports CSS1 and CSS2. In CF11 the new htmltopdf tag is supposed to have better support for styling.