Documentation required on Output Designer

Hi,
I am new to Adobe Output Designer development.
Can someone please help me by sharing documentations or some useful links on Adobe Output Designer?
Thanks in Advance.

There is documentation for Output Designer in the installation directory where you installed it (e.g. C:\Program Files\Adobe\Output Designer 5.6\Documentation\). The DevelopingTemplates.pdf has Section 9 - Advanced Template Concepts and Appendix A - Intelligent Pagination Reference. These two explain the use of the Preamble in Adobe Output Designer forms.

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I am a graphic / web designer and newly appointed on a project requiring Adobe Output Designer skills. Now, I've already searched in a lot of places: but still couldn't find a reliable source of tutorials and training materials for Adobe Output Designer.
Can anybody help?
thanks a lot in advance,
ovlique

The DJI cameras were first supported in ACR 8.3 and more support added in ACR 8.4:
Lens profile support | Lightroom 5, 4, 3 | Photoshop CS6, CS5 | Camera Raw 8, 7, 6
You will need PS-CS6 or PS-CC or PSE12 with current updates on OSX 10.7.x or Windows 7+ to use this version of ACR.
However, even if you have an older version of PS or older OS, if you can install the Adobe DNG Converter, you can copy these lens profiles to the User's lens profile folder and they might be seen. I can give more specific instructions about doing this if you are unable to update PS's ACR to 8.3/8.4.

Can Output Designer be used without installing Output server?

Hi,
Is it possible to use Output Designer independently of Output Server? I cannot find any detailed documentation on the Adobe site and it is not possible to download a trial version.
I want to create a form that we ensure users entered mandatory fields and that has dynamic sub forms. I do not need to do any further electronic processing of the data in the form once it has been filled in.
Thxs

Hi,
Yes you can use the output designer without the output server.
We are using the Jfmerge to merge the text file( a temp file to manupulate the data) and .DAT files.the output will be a PCL file. This PCL file you cn send to printer or you can convert it to any other format.We are converting it to PDF file using PCL2PDF file.
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[email protected]

Adobe Output Designer 5.7 or later Trail version

Problem:
Need to convert IFD file to XDP. Using Live Cycle Designer ES2 try to import the IFD file, following error occured "To import IFD, Adobe Output Designer 5.5 or later needs to be installed".
Need Help:
What is the current Version of Adobe Output Designer?
is there any trial version avilable for it?
is there any alternate solution for conversion of IFD to XDP?
will be greatfull if you help me to resolve this issue
Regards,
Srikanth.

Hello Srikanth; I will contact you separately
For others reading this thread
Most customers that need to convert an Output Designer IFD form for use with ADEP/LiveCycle Designer have access to Output Designer; the tool that originaly created the IFD files.
Current version is 5.7; the import feature in ADEP/LiveCycle Designer is the only conversion that Adobe offers.
The import requires Output Designer to be installed with ADEP/LiveCycle Designer for it to work.
The product is unfortunately not posted as a trial in a public place. To use the importer a licensed copy of Output Designer 5.7 should used.
Check around your organization for a copy; check your organizations S/W entitlements in Adobe LWS.
If you have an old version 5.4 and need 5.7; if you have current Adobe support; request an upgrade to 5.7 from Adobe Customer Care
The product is still available for sale and as a discounted license upgrade for customers that do not have current support.
If you have a regular Adobe representative for you account – a trial version can be ordered for you in a pinch – but this may take a while.
Adobe Partners with appropriate privilages can acess Output Designer 5.7 as a download on the partner portal.

Output Designer 5.5 and 5.6 Compatibility

Hi,
I want to purchase the Output designer Software, just wanted to confirm few question:
1. Files(IFD) created in Older Version like 5.2 can be opened without any problem in latest Version?
2.Can the files created in Output Designer 5.6 can be opened in Output Designer 5.5?
3.What all other software is required to create a Form based application through Output Designer(like Output Server)?
4.Is there any relation of Output Server and Output Designer Version Compatibility.What I know Output Server run the compiled file which are created by Output Designer.Does the Software version of Output Designer and Output Server should be same.
Your help will be very much appreciated.
Regards,
Tarun

Older files can be opened in the latest version. If the ifd is older than 5.3 and has the "Filler" aspects included, these Filler features will be removed.
I would not expect 5.5 to open a 5.6 ifd.
Output server includes printing, faxing, email, pdf, data transformation and along with the design tool is all you need to create a document generation application assuming the data is available. Output server uses a watched folder approach and will not go and get the data from a legacy application, the data must be pushed to Output Server.
Output Server will happily process forms from older versions of Output Design. They do not need to be the same version but I would not trust a 5.6 design to a 5.5 server. Upwards compatibility yes, downwards compatibility no.

Adobe Output Designer in Golden Valley, MN

Adobe Output Designer
Golden Valley, MN
3-6 Months Project
Must Have Skills: Adobe Output Designer forms design and modification skill.. Other similar product experience could also be considered.
Desired Skills: Coding / form design changes for desktop publishing with web application integration
Job Roles / Responsibilities:
Requirement Analysis for new application integration, impact analysis on existing layout (form) changes, implementing the change to designing of forms and Output designer code to successfully enable implementation.
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Hi Chris thanks for reply ,
As per data security i think i wont be able to share much of data or error file to you. But as i was analysing error file i found
"[138]Invalid options on '^subform' command."
My dat file is referring to few subforms , so when i commented a particluar subform in my dat file i was able to do test presentment succesfully. But still i have few doubts about the hit n trail solution.
My .idf file has just pages : 1 & 2 [Pg 1 is blank with only feld CONTINUE_FIELD ; and Pg 2 is real form with various fields ]
My dat file is referring to three subforms in total in sequence : INTIALLY it was like
^subform 2
//data
^subform 3
/data
^subform 3
//data
After following up err file i commented subform 2 & subform 3 in my dat file like [ i didnt know how to comment a line in dat file but after googling i found that if i put ; in front of a line it will be considered as comment , if someone could tell other way to do so i would appreciate]
AFTER changes it was like
^subform 2
//data
;^subform 3
/data
;^subform 3
//data
My Doubt : I can see the TP now but what i see is something like this...i see proper content on PDF page1 (all Pg 2 fields of .IDF form); but on pg2 it's just printed ;^subform 3 and on & pg3 its just printed ;^subform 3
So commenting tag ^subform 3 helped in showing up TP but it resulted in vanishing of data on Pg2 & Pg3 on PDF.
Now i doubt what went wrong ?? Somebody pls comment or compliment my hit & trial skills
thanks
jaY

Migrating forms from Adobe Output Designer 5.5 to Adobe Document Server

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Does anyone have any information on this? Any tools available? Documentation? Links?
cheers,
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I would think the common sense approach would be to upgrade to ECC 6 first then migrate your forms.
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Access sequence requirement for output control

Hi!
I would like to get some inputs on how access requirement for output control works. I created a new requirement for a condition table that has key combination billing type/sales org/country because I need to restrict the output for a paticular customer in one country. I think the requirement works fine such that it is not fulfilled for the customer that I want ot restrict, thus no output is created. However, I noticed that other customers in that sales org/country are affected by the requirement. The output is created (sy-subrc=0) but it is not processed (remains in yellow status). The output should be emailed immediately upon creation (medium 5/timing 4). For other sales org/countries the creation of output and sending of email work as expected.
I hope someone have valuable inputs regarding this.
Note: I created this discussion under ABAP development but it was rejected, for reason: This does not appear to be an ABAP question. So I hope I have selected the correct one with SD.
Cholen

There is Output determination log available in the output screen (see the menu). It tells everything about how the output was proposed.
If the requirement is not fulfilled, you won't see output created with any color - yellow, red or purple with sparkles. If output has been proposed and has a yellow light it means it has not been processed yet. Output is processed only after the document has been saved, so while creating the document, you'll never see any other color. If after saving the document output is still yellow, it must have a different timing than 'process immediately' and it will be processed according to that setting.
This is a very simple concept, well documented and discussed gazillion of times on SCN. Requirements and conditions are two different things with different purposes. You might want to read a bit more on the output determination.
Thank you.

Issue with Output designer and Konica bizhub Pro 920 Driver:

Hi, i would appreciate if someone could help me with the following issue:
I have designed a document using Adobe Output Designer and need to print it on Konica printer which uses above driver. Konica is not included in Adobe Presentment Target List so i am trying to use a Generic Postscript L2 - (PSLEVEL2) presentment target. I want to make few changes to this driver to match it with destination printer settings. e.g Output Order should be Face Up, Input and Output Tray should be Auto, Print position should be Left etc etc. I have tried to edit ICS file but it's not making any sense to me as i dont's know the PCL. Could anyone familiar with a similar situation help?
Thanks in advance
Tayyab.

Hi, i would appreciate if someone could help me with the following issue:
I have designed a document using Adobe Output Designer and need to print it on Konica printer which uses above driver. Konica is not included in Adobe Presentment Target List so i am trying to use a Generic Postscript L2 - (PSLEVEL2) presentment target. I want to make few changes to this driver to match it with destination printer settings. e.g Output Order should be Face Up, Input and Output Tray should be Auto, Print position should be Left etc etc. I have tried to edit ICS file but it's not making any sense to me as i dont's know the PCL. Could anyone familiar with a similar situation help?
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Output Designer Executable Problem When Compiling

I am currently experiencing a problem compiling some templates, where the Output Designer crashes with the following message 'Output Designer Executable has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.'
I have been working with a number of templates and most have compiled successfully without any problem. However occasionally they are crashing where they previously worked before. I also experience this problem using Test Presentment.
This crash is happening intermittently, but often enough to be causing me problems.
My feeling is it something to do with XP and memory allocation for compiles but I have not got to the bottom of this.
Can anyone give me any advice over this problem. Have any of you experienced this problem, if so how did you resolve it ?
Is there any settings that would solve this ?
Thanks
Stephen

Stephen,
I am having a similar problem. Have you been able to figure it out yet?
Thanks,

Adobe Output Designer Migration

Hello,
our customer has implemented Adobe Output Designer version 5.6 in Poland. We were asked for outsourcing of their Adobe printing solution. Could somebody help us please to answer the following questions:
1) Is it possible to migrate content of Adobe Central Output Server resp. Adobe Output Designer without physically moving hardware? If yes, how can be such migration provided?
2) Do we need to install the same version 5.6 of the Adobe Output Designer or we can install the version 5.7 and migrate the Adobe Output Designer content?
Thank you
Martin Dedouch

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There is a link at the top to have Adobe contact you.

Adobe Output Designer 5.7

Hi I am looking for Adobe Output Designer 5.7. Can anyone enlighten me where i can get the trial to test out and where to purchase it?
I need it to open ifd file and perform editing after that.
Thank you.

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There is a link at the top to have Adobe contact you.

Output Designer version 5.6 vs. 5.5

Hi there,
I am new to Output designer. I opened a .ifd file that was created in version 5.5 and tried to test presentment(the data file is a xml file) and i got error: #2210 unable to open data file. it can be successfully tested in version 5.5. Please advise.
Thanks.

Hi
I had a similar problem and was given this suggestion
Update the winmerge.ini file
When attempting to use an XML data file in Test Presentment, the error #2210 Unable to open data file will appear.
This problem occurs because several areas in the file winmerge.ini are not updated properly during installation.
You can rectify the problem by updating these areas. The file winmerge.ini is located in the Output Designer installation directory, by default C:\Program Files\Adobe\Output Designer 5.6.
The first area is in the [Paths] section.
As shipped, this section specifies:
[Paths]
ExePath=[EXEPATH]; Full path of directory holding executables
EtcPath=[SERVERDIR]; Full path of directory holding configuration files
LibPath=[EXEPATH]; Full path of directory holding DLLsUpdate the three pathing values to point to the installation directory.
For example, if you installed Output Designer to the default directory, update the [Paths] section as follows:
[Paths]ExePath=C:\Program Files\Adobe\Output Designer 5.6; Full path of directory holding executables
EtcPath=C:\Program Files\Adobe\Output Designer 5.6; Full path of directory holding configuration files
LibPath=C:\Program Files\Adobe\Output Designer 5.6; Full path of directory holding DLLs
The second area is in the [XftMdf].
As shipped, this section specifies:
[XftMdf]
JfXftMdfCommandLine=[EXEPATH]\JfXftMdf @P1. @P2.
Again, update the pathing value to point to the installation directory.
For example, if you installed Output Designer to the default directory, update the [XftMdf] section as follows:
[XftMdf]JfXftMdfCommandLine=C:\Program Files\Adobe\Output Designer 5.6\JfXftMdf @P1. @P2.
Adobe Enterprise & Developer SupportKnowledge Article ID: c4744 When attempting to use an XML data file in Test Presentment, an error message is returned.

Can Output Designer 5.6 compiled templates run on Jetform Server 5.4.1?

Has anyone tried to run templates compiled in Output Designer 5.6, on Jetform Server 5.4.1 (i.e. Central Pro Server)?

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Conversion path and process for Output Designer 5.5 to ES

Greetings,
I am looking for information on how to convert Output Designer 5.5 .ifd files to LiveCycle ES files.
Need to know if there are any barriers or pitfalls to be aware of and where can one get a copy of Output Designer 5.5?
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Read this - LiveCycle ES2 * Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES2
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