Cfpdfform with Livecycle

I'm trying to submit a PDF file from Livecyle to a coldfusion
web server and have that PDF file saved there.
I've created a Livecycle PDF in Livecycle Designer 9.0 where
I simply have one Submit as PDF button. It submits to my test.cfm
page which contain one line (which should simply create the file
'testupload.pdf' on the server:
<cfpdfform action="populate" source="#PDF.Content#"
destination="testupload.pdf" overwrite="yes"/>
I get an error:
An exception as occurred in the processing of PDF forms:
There is data in the #PDF.content# variable when I perform a
<cfdump #PDF.content#>
I'm following the example directly from:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=formsPDF_09.html
-Scott

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Hi all
These are the details of my environment:
ColdFusion version: 8.0.1
Update level: C:/ColdFusion8/lib/updates/chf8010004.jar
Server OS: Windows Vista 64
Web server: Apache
I'm using cfpdfform in ColdFusion 8 to read a Livecycle 8.2.1 pdf form straight into the browser window, enter text into a couple of fields and then submit the form back to the same CF page and use the submitted XML to populate the same form.
So, the relevant bit of my code is as follows:
<cfif IsDefined("PDF")>
    <cfpdfform action="read" source="#PDF.content#" xmldata="myXMLData" />
    <cfset myXMLData = XMLParse(myXMLData)>
    <cfpdfform action="populate" source="c:\temp\myPDFForm.pdf" xmldata="#myXMLData#" overwritedata="true" />
<cfelse>
    <cfpdfform action="populate" source="c:\temp\myPDFForm.pdf">
        <cfpdfsubform name="topmostSubform">
            <cfpdfformparam name="TextField1" value="Hello! The time is #TimeFormat(Now(), 'HH:mm:ss')#" />
        </cfpdfsubform>
    </cfpdfform>
</cfif>
This all works just fine, except that any multibyte unicode characters (e.g. Chinese) I enter into any text fields are lost (turned to question marks) when the form is populated from the submitted XML, even though I can see that the Unicode characters remain intact if I do a cfdump of the myXMLData variable on page submission.
I ordinarily have no problems with Unicode. I can write unicode characters in multiple foreign character sets to database and retrieve them just fine. I have site pages in several international character sets, and, as I have stated, the text I enter is displayed correctly in the correct foreign characters when I view a cfdump of the submitted form, so this appears to be specifically related to the PDF form populate side of things (or a setting in LiveCycle).
I have an inkling that the cause is that the LiveCycle form has its text fields set to allow rich text and has a specific font set against the fields, so I'm wondering whether the foreign character font, which displays fine when I enter it into the form, is being lost (overwritten by the LiveCycle field font) when read back into the form. Any ideas as to how to overcome this problem would be gratefully accepted.

Okay, I think I got to the bottom of this. The following full page code works:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>cfpdfform Post and Populate Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<cfoutput>
<cfif IsDefined("PDF")>
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    <cfpdfform action="populate" source="c:\temp\myLiveCycleForm.pdf" xmldata="#myXMLData#" />
<cfelse>
    <cfpdfform action="populate" source="c:\temp\myLiveCycleForm.pdf" />
</cfif>
</cfoutput>
</body>
</html>
The key to stopping the Chinese characters from breaking was to remove the overwritedata attribute from the populate tag on the action page. In other words, changing
<cfpdfform action="populate" source="c:\temp\myLiveCycleForm.pdf" xmldata=""#myXMLData#" overwriteData="yes" />
to
<cfpdfform action="populate" source="c:\temp\myLiveCycleForm.pdf" xmldata="#myXMLData#" />
fixed the problem.
As an interim measure, I wrote out the submitted PDF form XML to a file and took a look at what was happening and used the XML file as the basis for populating the PDF form, like this:
<cfif IsDefined("PDF")>
     <cfpdfform action="read" source="#PDF.content#" xmldata="myXMLData" result="data" />
    <cffile action="write" file="c:\temp\myXMLData.xml" output="#myXMLData#" charset="utf-8" nameconflict="overwrite">
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<cfelse>
     <cfpdfform action="populate" source="c:\temp\myLiveCycleForm.pdf" />
</cfif>
As well as causing the Chinese characters to break, the overwritedata attribute when populating the form appears to strip out any rich text formatting (CSS) from form fields.
Dropping the overwritedata attribute preserved the Chinese characters, regardless of whether the PDF form is populated directly from the posted PDF XML (as in the full example above) or via an XML file.
On a separate issue (one I'll post to the LiveCycle forum but I'm mentioning here for other people's reference), any XML which contains in-line CSS formatiing (e.g. individual words in bold text) using the span tag causes a ColdFusion error when used to populate the PDF form.

PDF created with LiveCycle will not display

All the other PDF links in the email work. However, the document created with LiveCycle give me this error in Firefox. I have made all the updates according to Firefox for Adobe Reader and Java. Still receiving this. Any suggestions??? I can see it in Explorer but not firefox or Chrome. Not everyone that will get this particular document will use Explorer. Unfortunately, I need a fast answer.

Well, since I fixed it in Chrome, it works for me. However, my partner beside me doesn't have Chrome and he gets the same generic screenshot that I had earlier, even though we made the changes in his Firefox. We're baffled...... The interactive form is the only form we can't pull.

How can I create a solution with Livecycle

I work for a high school and we have about 12 pdfs that we need parents to read/scroll through, then 10 (different) pages that we want them to print, complete and return to the school. Finally, we want them to see a "Thank you, you have done all you have to do" type screen. We want to make it as user friendly as possible so I was thinking...
Reading pages, 1 at a time with next at bottom.
Click next and it takes them on. When they get to printing pages 1 print button prints all pages we need them to print. Click next, and it takes them to optional print pages.
Click next and it says, thank you.
How can I make this happen if I already have all the pdfs?
Help please.
John Dent
[email protected]

Thank you soo much. A few questions?
They weren't created in designer but could I just import all of them?
How do "build the structure" for the naviagtion?
Where/how do you add the script.
Thanks again,
John Dent
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:01:08 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: How can I create a solution with Livecycle
I assume that all of these PDFs were created in Designer. If so you can add any buttons that you want to appear on every page (Next, Previous) onto the Master page then there is script you can add to the buttons to actual move the pages (xfa.host.pageDown() and xfa.host.pageUp()). The Prin button can be added to the specific page and you can pass the page numbers that you want to print as a parameter to the print command. Lastly when you get to the last page and the click Complete you can display a messageBox with your Thank you message.
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Not sure why you are resolving the node (??), also I would not be inclined to include a period in the object name (.), maybe this is why you are resolving the node.
Also I don't see in the script where you are calling the instanceManager, in order to use the addInstance method.
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Hi everybody!
I am using LiveCycle Data Services to generate a dynamic pdf. I worked with this tutorial : livedocs.adobe.com/livecycle/es/sdkHelp/programmer/lcds/pdfgen_1.html and i adapted the code to my own example.
I created a pdf template with livecycle designer and i succeed to generate the pdf thanks to LiveCycle Data Services.
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In LiveCycle Designer i create a table and bind my data connection (from xml source) to this table and i bind subforms to repeating data.
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Hi Guillaume,
there is no limitation. Dynamic PDF files can be generated with Livecycle Data Services.
You should have a look at the XML file generated by your Flex code. Try to save it and see how the XML file behaves when you generate a PDF preview with Designer. You can go to the menu: File > Properties > Preview > Use XML test data...
With the XFAHelper class, you can either load a PDF or a XDP file. Have you tried with a XDP ?
I've attached a dynamic PDF file that I've created for a customer. I generate a dynamic PDF file using LiveCycle Data Services. Maybe you'll find some clues within the file.
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Is possible in acrobat reader fill in and save interactive PDF created with LiveCycle Designer?

is possible in acrobat reader fill in and save interactive PDF created with LiveCycle Designer?

Hi,
Only if the form has been Reader Enabled before it is sent out to the user with Reader.
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We have been working for some time with LiveCycle to creat a documents and have experienced a host of problems with the end product.
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2- It only seems rational that if I make a form with LiveCycle that I should be able to view it with Adobe Reader or Adobe Pro.
Making a form with LiveCycle to be distrubuted to personnel internally that have Adobe Reader and Adobe Pro and cannot open it without it having a digital signature field in it that has just recently been signed just doesn't make sense. Nor does it seem to make sense to have to purchase 200 additional licenses just for LiveCycle so that people can open a PDF that was made with LiveCycle. If I make it in LiveCycle and only people with LiveCycle can open it, what is the purpose of making it to begin with?
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