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Server Settings section 23
Charting Settings page
The ColdFusion charting and graphing engine lets you produce highly customizable business
graphics, in a variety of formats, using the
cfquery
tag. You use the Charting page in the
Administrator to control characteristics of the engine.
The following table describes the caching and thread settings for the ColdFusion charting and
graphing engine:
Font Management page
The Font Management page lets you review and define fonts for use with Macromedia FlashPaper
and Acrobat PDF output formats. ColdFusion generates FlashPaper and PDF output through the
cfdocument
tag and through the
cfreport
tag, when used to call a report created with the
ColdFusion Report Builder.
ColdFusion MX automatically registers Acrobat built-in fonts and fonts located in typical font
locations (such as the Windows\fonts directory). However, if your server has additional fonts
installed in nonstandard locations, you must register them with the ColdFusion MX
Administrator so that the
cfdocument
and
cfreport
tags can locate and render PDF and
FlashPaper reports.
This page contains the following sections:
Register New Font with ColdFusion Lets you browse to a directory that contains fonts, or
select a specific font.
User Defined Fonts
Displays the fonts that have been registered explicitly.
Current System Fonts
Displays fonts stored in platform-specific system font directories.
For more information on font management, see the ColdFusion MX Administrator online Help.
For more information on reporting in ColdFusion MX, see Chapter 32, “Creating Reports for
Printing,” in
ColdFusion MX Developer’s Guide .
Option Description
Cache Type Set the cache type. Charts can be cached either in memory or to disk.
Memory caching is faster, but more memory intensive.
Maximum number of
images in cache Specify the maximum number of charts to store in the cache. After the
cache is full, if you generate a new chart, ColdFusion discards the oldest
chart in the cache.
Max number of charting
threads Specify the maximum number of chart requests that can be processed
concurrently. The minimum number is 1 and the maximum is 5. (Higher
numbers are more memory-intensive.)
Disk cache location When caching to disk, specify the directory in which to store the
generated charts.