In Design to PDF

I need help with taking an InDesign File CS3 and I need to export it as a pdf. The problem is, I want the resulting pdf file to open "Fit Page" and I am not sure how to go about this. Can anyone help me out?

So the workflow is to export the InDesign document to PDF. Now open the pdf file in Acrobat and go to (in my case Acrobat 6.0) Go to Document Properties and under Initial View, Change the Default Magnification? Now save the document and when opened in Adobe Reader, it will be at the magnification I set?

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Is it possible you accidentally put the fields on the master page?

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Hi,
I am assigned to the task of converting Live Cycle Designer generated PDF to regular acrobat PDF. I tried all options know to me but cannot succeed. The forms in LC designer is a fillable form with two buttons at the bottom. (Print & reset). The controls on the forms are
Textbox
Checkbox
Print & reset buttons
I tried the following options
print to a new pdf but the form became non-fillable with no controls
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tried save as with no success
I am willing to re-do the form but trying to minimize the re-work
The add or edit fields on form menu is not available for the form generated in live cycle.
we want to get rid of all live cycle dependencies and stick to bare bones acrobat
Please help

The only way I can think of woudl be to print the XFA form to PDF (using the Print driver that comes with Acrobat). This will create an AcroForm PDF for you but all fields and structure wil be lost. This will give you the boiler plate, then you can use the Form Tools in Acrobat to lay fields on top of the form.
Note that if you want to change some of the boiler plate you will have to go back to Designer and repeat the process. You may want to bite the bullet and redo the form now.
Paul

CS3/Designer ES - PDF Form Fields

Hello,
I currently create my flyers through AI and convert to pdf for electronic distribution. I am hoping to have end user inputted information through form fields in my pdfs. Is there a way to create form fields in AI that will be exported as such when being converted into a pdf?
Can I go from AI -> Designer ES -> pdf?
Or is the process AI -> PDF -> Designer ES -> PDF?
Thank You,
Sandy

>Is there any way to save the form field locations different from the pdf itself?
No. But you can use Acrobat's Replace Pages command. Change the form in Illustrator and save (no need to make a PDF). Open the old form and go to Document > Replace pages. Replace the page in the current form with the new Illustrator file. The form looks like the Illustrator file but form fields are retained in their old position. If the changes require moving form fields then you still have to do that.

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how to save data model design in pdf or any format..?
i ve created design but not able to save it any mage or pdf format

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Trimming Designer generated PDF file size.

I recently had a PDF generated in Acrobat that I downloaded from Adobe. I opened this file in Designer, made no changes, and re-saved the PDF. The file size went from 60k to over 600k. I understand that Designer and Acrobat use two totally different engines for generating PDF's, but what possible explanation is there for the enormous file size difference? Does anyone know of a utility to trim the file size of designer generated PDF's?

There is another post by Jennifer Manarang who had the same issues and she found her solution. You can take a look at this post to see if it helps.
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?128@@.3bba7a73
also, posted by Sriniva Surapaneni.
Srinivas Surapaneni, "increasing the size when unlocking" #, 14 Jul 2005 7:08 pm

Saving form design as Pdf - acrobat pro xl

Further to reply by Jef Canepa. Am unable to save form design as pdf. am getting error msg " Cannot export PDF, Acrobat.com encountered an unexpected error."
I created the form from a template in adobe acrobat pro XI. Kindly advise. I need to form to send out for survey on my education program.
Thanks

Could you please send me the following information:
Operating System
Account type/level
Acrobat XI version (ie., 11.0.2, 11.0.0)
FormsCentral build number (go to menu Help-> About FormsCentral)
Name of the Template you used
Precise steps you take leading up to the error
For your protection, you can send the information directly to me at [email protected]
Jeff Canepa
Software Quality Engineer
Adobe Systems, Inc.
[email protected]

In Design CS6 - pdf not printing right

OSX 10.8.5
Adobe Creative Suite Design Standard / In Design v. 8.0.2 (latest update)
ISSUE: Seems to have arisen right after I upgraded my Mac OS from Tiger to Mountain Lion. Not sure if there's a connection, however. I just did the latest update for CS6, so don't know if the prior version of InDesign led to the problem either (it was CS6 but I hadn't done an update for awhile).
Issue: I created an InDesign page and then generated a press quality PDF for a commercial printer, who put it thru a RIP and then printed it. My submitted PDF looked just fine, no issues that I could see. However, on two occasions the pages printed with things missing…..in one case a header at the top and part (not all) of a block of text in the other. On the second occasion, two bits of text within two separate text blocks were missing. This NEVER occurred before, ever. BUT….this has happened since upgrading to Mountain Lion OS and before updating CS6 to the 8.0.2 version I now have.
My printer said "In Design sometimes doesn't distill a PDF correctly", although this doesn't make sense as I've never had this happen before. The fonts were fine, not protected, everything was present, all colors were fine, it was just sporadic missing text. I've looked at everything and can't find any reason for this.
Has anyone got ideas about this?

Can we assume that you are exporting PDF, not somehow creating PDF via distillation of PostScript? PDF via distillation of PostScript is not reliable.
And exactly what PDF joboption preset did you use when you exported PDF?
Quite frankly, I somehow suspect that neither you, the MacOS version, the InDesign version, nor the PDF file itself are the problem.
The fact that your printer is mumbling about “In Design (sic) sometimes doesn't distill a PDF correctly” leads me to believe that your printer may be the problem. Quite often, printers muck around with perfectly fine PDF files, opening them in (gasp!) Adobe Illustrator “just to check things out and to ‘fix things’.” The problem is that usually there really isn't anything to fix and that Adobe Illustrator is not, repeat not, repeat yet again not a PDF file editor. The only PDF files that Adobe Illustrator can safely open and edit are PDF files saved from Adobe Illustrator if and only if the “save editability” option is selected when such a PDF file is saved. Otherwise, it is very possible that text and other PDF objects may be lost or otherwise modified, colors changed, etc. The damage occurs when the PDF file is opened in Illustrator and becomes permanent when such a file is saved, even if nothing is explicitly done to the file by the user!
Alternatively, your printer may have a wonky PDF workflow system with very out-of-date components or a very, very out-of-date RIP/DFE.
Generally speaking, if you can open the PDF file in Acrobat or Adobe Reader and print successfully to a local print device, you should have no problems of the type you describe.
- Dov

28 page Designer 7 .pdf form only shows one page in Acrobat 8

Help!
We have .pdf's that were generated with Designer 7.1, containing filled-in form data, but they cannot be viewed under Acrobat 8.1.
For example, a 28 page .pdf displays OK under Acrobat 6 (with warnings) and Acrobat 7 (error-free) ... but only displays one, blank page (with no errors and no warnings) under Acrobat 8.
Does anybody have any idea why Acrobat 8.1 is only displaying one page instead of the full 28 pages seen with Acrobat 6 or Acrobat 7?

Hi -
Thank you for the reply:
1. The "Adobe Acrobat" forums ultimately point back to "Adobe Reader" - and this forum. There doesn't appear to be any separate forum for "Adobe Acrobat".
2. Thank you for the suggestion about Lifecycle Designer.
I tried to download LifeCycle Designer, but the link pointed to exactly the same "ar 8.1.2" download I'm currently having the problem with. Do I need "Lifecycle Enterprise"?
3. I've tried multiple different versions of Acrobat Reader 8.1.x, and even Acrobat 8/Pro. They all show only one page: no errors, but no data, either.
Acrobat 6 and 7, however, show a full 28 pages. Even Linux shows all 28 pages (and reports no errors or warnings in the .pdf). Do you have any idea what could account for this?
Thank you in advance

Saving form last modified in LiveCycle Designer as PDF version 1.4

I have a PDF fillable form that was last modified/saved in LiveCycle Designer. The PDF is currently version 1.7, but I need to reduce it to version 1.4 (for compatibility reasons). The way I normally do this is to open the PDF in Acrobat and use the optimizer to save it down to version 1.4, but with this form I'm getting a message that says "The PDF document contains an Adobe XML form. Such files cannot be optimized." I downloaded the trial version of Designer ES4, but I'm not having any luck taking it down to version 1.4. Does anyone know if it's possible to save down this kind of PDF to version 1.4?

LiveCycle PDFs aren't normal Acrobat PDFs, they're an XML file with a wrapper - that's why you can't optimize them.
You can't save to specific PDF versions, but you can change the target version of the form from Designer. I'm not sure what options Designer ES4 gives you but under the Defaults tab of File>Form Properties you can change the Target Version - I'm using ES2 can can change the compatibility back to Acrobat 7.0.5 (PDF 1.6).

LiveCycle Designer 10 - PDF Vorschau deaktiviert

Obwohl nur Acrobat XI 11.10 installiert ist kann beim LiveCycle Designer 10 einfach die PDF-Vorschau nicht aktiviert werden. Sowohl Acrobat als auch der LiveCycle Designer wurden komplett deinstalliert und neu installiert. In der Registry wurden alle Adobe Einträge zum vorher installierten Reader deinstalliert. Auch möglich ältere Registry Einträge zum vorher installierten Acrobat 10 wurden gelöscht. Keine Chance ...
Es muss doch ggf. in der Registry einen Eintrag geben, woher der Designer erkennt, dass Acrobat installiert ist und er dann die PDF Vorschau wieder anzeigen kann. Hat jemand eine Idee ??
Die Ursache hängt möglicherweise mit dem IE 11 zusammen. Hier benötigt man (warum auch immer) der Reader um bspw. PDF-Dateien auf einer Webseite anzeigen zu lassen und nicht als Datei abzurufen. Zumindest hatten wir mal eine Einstellung, wo beide funktionierte - der Designer zeigte die PDF Vorschau an, Acrobat XI und Reader XI waren installiert und der Reader war im IE11 als AddInn aktiviert damit die Vorschau auf Webseiten funktionierte. Wir nutzen Win7 x64 als Betriebssystem. Leider haben wir keinen Systemwiederherstellungspunkt wo es mal funktionierte.

Ihr Lieben,
inzwischen habe ich auch gesehen, dass es ein Upgrade auf ES4 gibt. Das werden wir mal ausprobieren.
Unabhängig davon wird der LCD ES3 tatschlich nur mit Acrobat X Pro ausgeliefert. Mit Acrobat XI entfällt dieser Zusatz. Wer aber ein Upgrade von Acrobat X Pro auf Acrobat XI Pro erwirbt (wie wir) kann bekommt eine Seriennummer für den LCD ES3 (ich meine sogar, dass mit dem Acrobat X Pro noch der LCD ES2 geliefert wurde).
Unabhängig davon hat half die Diskussion bislang nicht den Kern des Problems zu finden (wie geschrieben, hatten wir nur eine Lösung mit der Reader im IE gefunden). Nun mussten wir noch feststellen, dass auch hier alte Office 2003 pdf'te Dokumente als Office 2010 gespeichert und pdf'te Dokumente auch nicht einfach mit dem LCD ES3 ersetzt werden können (bislang wurden bestehende Verknüpfungen über den XML-Code einfach nur kopiert). Solange keine bspw. mit dem Aktionsgenerator erzeugen Zusatzbefehle ergänzt wurden kann man einfach die Verknüpfungen kopieren und richtig platzieren - doch leider werden dabei nicht alle Codes übertragen ...
Offensichtlich scheinen die Probleme mit Office 2003 / 20010 und Adobe weiter zu bestehen und Lösungen nur durch Neuerstellungen zu erzielen ...

How to populate Adobe LiveCycle Designer generated PDF Forms with data from Database in Windows app

Hi
I have a PDF template designed in Adobe LiveCycle Designer. This template has form fields which needs to be filled with data programmatically. I am using windows application in C#.Net 2005 in which I want to retrieve data from database and merge this data into PDF form in respective fields.
How this can be achieved?
I searched a lot & I found that we can process the XDP file generated from PDF to acheive this. I created the XDP file out of the PDF template created in designer. But I don't know how to merge data from database into that XDP file in respective fields and again convert this XDP file back to PDF programmatically. Can anybody help me ? This is urgent.
Thanks in advance.
Sambhaji

Please ignore the above code. The following one is correct one. using System; using System.Data; using System.Configuration; using System.Web; using System.Web.Security; using System.Web.UI; using System.Web.UI.WebControls; using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts; using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls; using System.Text; public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page { protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.adobe.xdp+xml"; StringBuilder responseString = new StringBuilder(); responseString.Append("<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>"); responseString.Append("<?xfa generator='AdobeLiveCycleDesigner_V8.0' APIVersion='2.5.6290.0'?>"); responseString.Append("<xdp:xdp xmlns:xdp='http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/'>"); responseString.Append("<xfa:datasets xmlns:xfa='http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/'>"); responseString.Append("<xfa:data>"); responseString.Append("<form1>"); responseString.Append("<TextField1>Homer</TextField1>"); responseString.Append("<TextField2>Simpson</TextField2>"); responseString.Append("<field name ='DropDownList1'>"); responseString.Append("<items save='1'>"); responseString.Append("<text>1</text>"); responseString.Append("<text>2</text>"); responseString.Append("<text>3</text>"); responseString.Append("</items>"); responseString.Append("</field>"); responseString.Append("</form1>"); responseString.Append("</xfa:data>"); responseString.Append("</xfa:datasets>"); responseString.Append("<pdf href='C:\\Test.pdf' xmlns='http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/pdf/' />"); responseString.Append("</xdp:xdp>"); Response.Write(responseString); Response.Flush(); Response.End(); } }

Saving a form design as pdf

I've designed a form using a template form. How can i save the form as a pdf for my survey?

Could you please send me the following information:
Operating System
Account type/level
Acrobat XI version (ie., 11.0.2, 11.0.0)
FormsCentral build number (go to menu Help-> About FormsCentral)
Name of the Template you used
Precise steps you take leading up to the error
For your protection, you can send the information directly to me at [email protected]
Jeff Canepa
Software Quality Engineer
Adobe Systems, Inc.
[email protected]

Better Workflow for 20+ "versions" of a design, secure PDFs and Thumbs...

This will probably be a long one. Basically, I'm able to complete my tasks, but it is really time consuming and I can't help but feel like there is a better way. I'm hoping someone here can clue me in.
THE PROJECT:
I sell digital downloads of a planner. There are several variations (with Holidays, without Holidays, weekly views, month only views etc.). Each variation is offered in several "designs". These are just different BG patterns. Once I've got them saved as a secure PDF (so no one can edit my design or copy/paste my resources) I have to create mockups of several views of each one. So right now, when I make a new background pattern that I want to intoduce to the set, I workflow ike this:
►Open 17 Indd files. One for each variation.
►Relink the BG image to the new design.
►Save 17 Indd files in a new folder with a new name indicating the new BG. (ie: Jan-13_Dec-14_Basic_Monthly_PurpleWeave.Indd)
►Export 17 indd files to PDF, going through the menu to change the security settings on each one.
This is a nightmare. It takes ~3 seconds to choose all the menus (not to mention typing in my security password twice), but then another ~5-10 to actually save the 144pg file. I can do nothing but sit and stare while it does this. I've found a couple of scripts that will export the PDFs from a whole folder for me, but since you can't save security settings in the PDF presets, I have to do it all by hand.
►Open 6-10 Photoshop Files for the mockups.
►Right Click "Edit Contents" for each smart object containing the PDF. (Usually 2 per PSD)
In order to allow the Transform>Distort for the placed PDF Smart Object, I have to place it, then "Create Smart Object". This means that the regular "Replace Contents" doesn't work. It does replace the PDF, but it loses the distortion that made it optically match with the perspective in the mock up. So, I am forced to use "Edit Contents" which opens a new window and adds steps.
►Wait for PS to open the Edit Contents in new window.
►File > Place new PDF.
►Save and close, return to Mockup File.
►Save As... Mockup File as Jpeg with proper name to reflect new BG.
I've been looking for a method like InDesign has, where I can easily replace all iterations of one PDF with another in the mockup. This presents a couple problems. Firstly, Photoshop doesn't really have "pages" so I'd still have to open all of the PSDs (since each one is a different view) and change them manually. I tried instead to just do it in InDesign, importing the base mockup PSD with one on each page and placing the PDF on top (So I can use the relink feature). This doesn't work because ID doesn't allow distorting of placed files, so the best I can get is a crappy shear to imitate perspective on the mockup and the mockups look rediculous. I am totally open to suggestions on this.
I have The Adobe Master Collection CS6. I feel like I must be missing something that will make this easier. Particularly in steps 4, 6, and 10 where I am doing the same repetative task over and over again, I wonder if there is a more efficient use of my time. I've thought about possible PS actions to replace the needed Smart Objects, but as far as I can tell I'd still have to place the new file, so I don't think it would save any time?
Also, I've searched the forums but haven't found a way to batch export to PDF with security. That alone would be a huge time saver. :/
Thanks for looking and I appreciate any advice!

Peter,
I use styling to turn off Holidays in the month views. But, there are pages in the actual book that detail the year's US Holidays. So, unless I wanted to remove/re-add a page for each save they have to be in different Indd files I think. All of the variations have different content. There is a version with weekly meal planning, one with weekly lesson planning, some with week views, some with only month views. Some of the files are for add ons to the planner as well (activity pages, notes pages, optional covers etc. So, I'm probably stuck with having that many files. But I wish updating/saving as PDF was better.
[EDIT: Peter S]

How to design interactive pdf. for multiple additions and saves???

Using LiveCycle designer - Can anyone clarify how we can let others make multiple additions and saves to an interactive pdf. I created in Live Cycle Designer 8.2.1...
I have created an interactive pdf. with LiveCycle designer and sent to client.
Is there any way I can give them ability to save the pdf. make multiple additions and saves and send back when they have completed it?
or even pull up the file make changes and resend at some point in the future without having to fill in all form field again?
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Sorry but this is the wrong forum (this is for the Collaboration Services). You may want to try the LiveCycle Designer forum:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/livecycle/livecycle_es/livecycle_designer_es

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Thanks for reading. Ali

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If you can't find anything then please post your question with full details. The fact that it doesn't work, is not going to help anyone. You need to tell exactly what happens when you try.
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