Filling Text Fields

I have a VB program which can fill text fields in a fdf file that was created by Acrobat. I have created a new pdf form using Designer 7, but my program failed to recognize text fields, though they have the same bindings as in the old fdf file. Anyone can explain to me why did this happen? Thank a alot.

FDF is a technology that works with Acrobat forms. You can't use it with Designer based forms, the technologies are completely different.
Chris
Adobe Enterprise Developer Support

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       Zip:   <cfinput class="smallforms" id="locationZip"   name="locationZip"   type="text" size="8"><br />
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    <br />
    </td></tr>
    Thanks again Steve . . . much appreciated!

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