Editable PDFs displayed on Web Form

We have an editable pdf which needs to be shown on a web page where the user can enter the data. We have enabled some javascript validations on some of the input fields. However we will need to capture the submitted data and render the filled out PDF form. What are the recommended Adobe tools we could use for this effort?

I suspect that this is happening because the image is being converted to JPEG for transmission down to the client with maximum copmpression to reduce network bandwidth use.
This is one if the reasons that we recommend that you do not use Boilerplate images on the web.
The only thing you can try is to manually convert to JPG with Maximum compression before you insert onto the canvas - that way you can control the "final" image somewhat and the difference between the downloaded version and the source will be less marked

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Amir Razavi (guest) wrote:
: I am using the static implementation of forms. I have specified
: a console window in the forms property. I cannot see the status
: line in version 6.0 (forms are displayed in the same frame as
: static HTML). When I used version 5.0 of forms which displayed
: the Web form in a new frame I got the status line but it was
: always set to "Warning: Applet Window".
: I like 6.0 implementation of showing the form in the same frame
: but the messages in the status line is very important to my
: application. Any help?
: I tries adding "USESDI=YES" parameter to the static HTML, did
: not make any difference. The client side looks like doing MDI
: implementation because I can move my form around within the
: applet window.
: Thank You,
: Amir
I'm developing with Forms 5.0.
With Microsoft Explorer the Frame always show the message
"Warning: Applet Window", but with Netscape Communicator 4.5 IT
WORKS!!! It always show the correct message.
null

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