[UPDATED: Monday, November 21, 2011 at 8:33:18 AM]
I'm working on a project where I'm trying to create thumbnails for documents the user uploads. Since CF8 has introduced the <cfpdf /> tag, I thought it would be pretty straightforward to turn page 1 of a PDF into a thumbnail image—turns out I was wrong.
While the <cfpdf /> does work, it was causing me to jump through some various hoops some of which I could easily overcome. The issues I had were: