Integration of Cold Fusion and Adobe Livecycle form

I created a adobe dynamic xml form and I also created a sample cold fusion script which reads all the fields from the pdf and populates them in to a structure.
<cfpdfform action="read" source= "FORM PATH" result="formData" />
<cfdump var="#formData#" label="formData" />
When I run this script the structure shows me blank fields.
Cold fusion version is 8.
Please share your thoughts on this.
Many Thanks,
Nav.

Hi,
I'm thinking of possible reason for your problem.
Check these solutions, maybe they can help you.
http://blogs.adobe.com/dmcmahon/2011/02/01/livecycle-designer-flowed-layout-in-headerfoote r-subforms-incorrect/
http://blogs.adobe.com/dmcmahon/2011/10/10/lc-forms-es-text-overlapping-on-page-break-usin g-nested-subforms/

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