IPad PDF with LiVeCycle Designer

Will I ever be able to open a PDF on my iPad that was created with LiveCycle Designer?

XFA (LiveCycle) support is a feature that is requested frequently. As such, it is something we are looking to provide some level of support for in a future release. If the Mobile Reader were to support Static XFA form fill-in, would this meet your needs? Or do you require additional features above and beyond this capability?
Darrell

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Reader 11.0.07 does not display content of PDFs created with LiveCycle Designer ES 8.1

We use some PDFs created with LiveCycle Designer ES 8.1 which do not show any content when opened with Reader 11.0.07, only a blank display area or erratic copies of the screen behind it. Documents look fine in print preview though and also print correctly. Tried to change various security or display settings, no effect. Tried other machines, different hardware, different OS versions (Win7, Win8), same effect on every single device with 11.0.07 installed.
Any ideas, anyone?!?

Hi,
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.
Having said that the problem may be in the File > Form Properties > Defaults tab:
Check that Preserve script changes is set to Automatic.
Lastly is the form Reader Enabled? It would need to be for users with Reader to save the changes, including new instances of a repeating element.
Niall

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.
There are two ways of Reader Enabling the form. One using Acrobat Standard v9 or Acrobat Professional v8 (both have license restrictions). The other is to use LC Reader Extensions ES2, which is a server product (additional costs).
Some info here:
http://www.assuredynamics.com/index.php/2010/11/using-livecycle-forms-in-acrobat-and-reade r/
A search of the forums for "Reader Extensions" or "Reader Enable" will give more information.
Hope that helps,
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Uploading pdf files created with LiveCycle Designer ES4

I uploaded some pdf files to my server that were designed with LiveCycle Designer ES4. I can open them directly from the server using my SmartFTP program, however when I
try to download using the URL, I get the following message:
Please wait. . .
If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper contenst of teh document, your PDF viewer may not be able to display this type of document.
You can upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Reader for Windows . . . .
I have both the latest version of Adobe Reader and Acrobat Pro XI installed on the computer.
Any thoughts??

Hi,
Only if the form has been Reader Enabled before it is sent out to the user with Reader.
There are two ways of Reader Enabling the form. One using Acrobat Standard v9 or Acrobat Professional v8 (both have license restrictions). The other is to use LC Reader Extensions ES2, which is a server product (additional costs).
Some info here:
http://www.assuredynamics.com/index.php/2010/11/using-livecycle-forms-in-acrobat-and-reade r/
A search of the forums for "Reader Extensions" or "Reader Enable" will give more information.
Hope that helps,
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Assure Dynamics

Display issue with LiveCycle Designer ES4 for cropped PDF in WIN7

Hi,
I am having issue displaying the cropped PDF file in the LiveCycle Designer ES4. The PDF files are cropped 3 inches from bottom using Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional. It used to display properly when we have a WinXP machine but once we moved to a Win7 machine, it cannot display the top part of the PDF anymore. Can anyone help on how to fix the display issue? Thanks.
Kenny
Environment:
Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES4 V11.0.0.2013.0303.1.892433
Adobe Acrobat 8.0.0
Screenshots
Win 7, LiveCycle Designer does not display properly
Win XP, LiveCycle Designer used to display properly

Thanks vNohria.
I am having same issue with Adobe Acrobat 9. The Acrobat 9 cropped file is displaying properly under WinXP but have the same issue as above in Win7. This issue seems uncommon as I tried to look for similar issue and couldn't find any.
P.S. It's only the Design View in Win7 that has the issue, I can still see the file fine with Preview PDF in both enviornment.
Design View:
Preview PDF:

Form created with Livecycle Designer with a SQL database - do you need LiveCycle Forms installed?

Hello,
I'm REALLY hoping someone here can help me, I have spent over four hours on the phone to Adobe in the last 3 days and I'm getting no where what-so-ever. I can't even find out where /how to complain about it! (but thats another story)
Here's my situtation:
I work for a company with approx 140 staff. On one computer, we have Adobe Livecycle Designer ES installed, and we have used that program to create a form which has a link to a SQL database.
The link in this form doesn't work on the other computers which has the basic (free) Adobe Reader. From doing research within these forums
, I have found that the form will not work on other computers unless they have Adobe Livecycle forms installed on their machines.
What I need to know (and what they cannot seem to tell me when I call), is two things:
Is it correct that in order to use a form created in Livecycle Designer which has a link to a SQL database, that the machine must have LiveCycle forms installed?
How much does Adobe LiveCycle Forms costs?
PLEASE, if you can answer this question, I would REALLY appriciate it....
Thank you!

I presume you are asking if you need Livecycle Forms ES? Forms ES is a component of the livecycle software suite intended as a document service which will be installed on a server within the organisation. A couple of things this document service can do is to render XDP into multiple formats (PDF, html, etc.), execute script server side (for example the database connection) on behalf of the client (reader, etc.), integrate with backend components, etc. So no you do not install this on each client.
For database connections to work, you either have a server with Forms ES installed which can connect on each clients behalf (ie. Client->Forms ES Server->Database), or you have a reader-extended PDF to allow connections to be use in the free basic Reader (i.e. direct calls to the database or using web service calls to your own database components). However, reader-extended pdf would probably require Reader Extensions ES component installed on a server (you once off extend your developed pdf through this and then hand it out to each of the end users). Not sure if the Acrobat Reader extensions will cover this functionality since I have not tried that. I dont think it does. Otherwise you would need full acrobat on each client.
How much database integration is your form actually doing at the moment? read only? Full access? And how many clients do you expect to hit your database? Depending on what you need the form to do, there is always the option to try and build the integration yourself. Do simple http submits from the browser (hosting reader as a plugin) to some component somewhere which in turn hits your database. Wouldnt require additional licensing but alot more development work.
As for cost for the various components, thats a question only Adobe can answer for you since they all sit squarely in the enterprise space and licensing for that is not as simple as off the shelf products.
Maybe someone else has a view on it or has an alternative.

Edit Indesign pdf in Livecycle Designer

I have a form created in Livecycle designer that I would like to add to an InDesign PDF. I also would like to make minor revisions to the InDesign document in Livecycle. Can anyone tell me how this can be done. Thanks.

Hi,
it cannot be done!
The PDF's you create with Designer and InDesign are totally different animals and not comparable against each other.
To edit an interactive PDF you created with InDesign you can either use Acrobat for minor changes or the source file (indd) and InDesign.
To edit a dynamic PDF created with Designer you have to use Designer as even Acrobat won't allow changes.

Data import for users of forms created with Livecycle Designer

Hello,
I have seen several posts regarding data import for forms created by Livecycle Designer but nothing that helps with something I am trying to accomplish. I can create a data connection and import information in a form but what I would like to do is import data, then send the pdf for completion to a user. There are a few data elements that I have available and the rest of the information comes from from the user. The problem I run into is once I create a data connection, the pdf is ALWAYS looking for the source file for that data. I simply want to prepopulate some fields and send to the various users for completion. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!

Which type of Data Connection are you trying to create?
XML Schema, Sample Data File or WSDL?
Creating any one of first two types(mentioned above) will only create schema and will never import any data into PDF.
If you create the WSDL connection, you can surely import data (i.e. prepopulate data) into your PDF and forward it for users review/fill.
If I misunderstood your question, please get me clarified.
Nith

Is it possible to build a "click to enlarge" option for images with Livecycle Designer?

Hello! I have built an audit form where the auditors report conditions and add photos by using an image field that when clicked, gives them a dialog box to choose a picture. The photos initially just load as a small image on the screen - a little bigger than a thumbnail and just large enough so you can see what they're talking about. However, I'd like to add an option that would allow the reader to click (or do something) which would enlarge or zoom the image, and then return to its initial smaller size.
I don't even know if it's possible and all my searching and reading hasn't come up with any solutions. The best I can come up with as an alternative is to build some pages at the end of the audit report called "Photo Gallery" and use the global data option to sort of feed in whatever pictures are added into a larger image place on those gallery pages. Not exactly what I was looking for, but at least it's a step in the right direction.
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Jan

Hi Jan,
You could try having a custom dialog with a larger version of the image and then open the dialog when they click a button that covers the image on the form.
Here is an example. https://sites.google.com/site/livecycledesignercookbooks/home/ClickToEnlarge.pdf?attredire cts=0&d=1
The dialog code used in the example was generated using the method described here ... Adobe LiveCycle Designer Cookbooks by BR001: Using app.execDialog() in an Adobe Designer Form
If your pictures are big then you will need another way of storing the image data, which is currently just a big JavaScript string literal, you'll see what I mean in the example.
Regards
Bruce

Created a PDF with LiveCycle, I can open it using my Adobe Pro, but my friends can't...

Hi,
I created a PDF file using LiveCycle and I can easily open it with my Adobe Acrobat Pro on my laptop. However, my friends couldn't on their laptop. Is this even possible? Is it because they are using an older version of Adobe?

Are you talking about LiveCycle Designer? Which version, and what did you set the compatibility setting to: http://forms.stefcameron.com/2009/02/11/careful-with-form-compatibility-settings/
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Compare two pdfs in livecycle designer

Does anyone know how to compare 2 pdfs in livecycle. So basically what I want is highlight the differences between 2 pdfs.
If anyone has any idea it will be really helpful.
Thanks.

Hi Santosh,
I am specifically looking for such feature in LC designer. I mean though workbench with processes, if we can create something like that.
Let me know if u have any idea.
Thanks

Forms with LiveCycle Designer

Hi,
Last year I designed a form (to PDF) within Adobe LiveCycle Designer (latest version). Now I'v upgraded to Adobe CC, but I don't find this programm. Instead I've got FormsCentral. How can I import this special PDF form into FormsCentral and keeping the filling-files, buttons?
Kind regards,
Joris

Forms are forms. They don't change just because you upload them. While it has nothing to do with LiveCycle as such, FC should be able to open your frorm and convert it. In any case, ask such specific questions in teh relevant product forums.
Mylenium

FLASH in PDF with LC Designer

Hi there,
i was reading all the options how to embeed a Flash into a PDF with Acrobat.
I wonder how i can achieve this with LC Designer, or more even through a Form Fragment on a LiveCycle server
Anybody got an idea on this ?
thank you
Dieter

Hi,
The only way that I know is to create a blank PDF in Acrobat first. Then import this PDF into LC Designer. You will not have all of the LC Designer features available to you, but you will be able to create a basic form.
Then when you open the form again in Acrobat, the Flash Tool (from the Tools > Multimedia menu) will be available to you.
Thom Parker has an article here: http://acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2008/08/js_flash_buttons/
The trick is getting the Flash content to communicate with the PDF/XFA content. Thom uses the external interface call to fire a function. This works well with Document Level functions in an AcroForm, but I have been unable to get it to fire a script object function in the XFA form.
Incomplete sample here: https://acrobat.com/#d=HAp0kKvcWk7X5N52HxcXng. The colour picker is meant to change the colour of the XFA objects, but at the moment it does not call the function "xfa.form.mobileFlash.swfComms.setColour", even though you can fire this in the javascript console.
Good luck,
Niall

How to give reader extensions to a form created with LiveCycle designer

Hello,
I make forms with "Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES 8.1" and then I give them somes rights.
I use the link http://172.16.1.35:8080/ReaderExtensions/index to give my forms rights, like (Basic form filling, Import and export form data, Submit outside web browser, Digital Signatures)
Since 2 weeks, this link doesn't work. I called Adobe Belgium and give them my licence key and they couldn't help me becasue they sayed that it's an old application.
Can someone help me please, it's an emergency.
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Hi,
Why do you need to change the connection string? What are you calling "connection string for a form"???
The only connection string I now about is the one used to connect to the UI API... and this one is fixed for all apps in debug mode and given as parameter when your addon is registered in B1.
The connection string is filled in the code of your generated addon.
Please go to the main class of your addon, in the main method you have the following code where the connection string is filled either with the command line parameters (release mode) or with the fixed value given by SAP. This code doesn't need to be changed...
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Regards
Trinidad.

Making a PDF with LiveCycle then being able to edit pages, insert pages, delete pages, attach files to document, be readable in Adobe Reader etc.

We have been working for some time with LiveCycle to creat a documents and have experienced a host of problems with the end product.
1. Images inserted into the LiveCycle PDF document often come up as "broken links" after editing the document and resaving it.
2. Documents will not display in Acrobat reader unless a digital signature is applied to them and the document is re-saved.
3. After making the document, we are unable to use Adobe Pro to insert pages, delete pages, or insert files into the document as attachments.
The end state was to use the simplicity of LiveCycle to create a document and do most of the hard work, and then save it as a PDF document that could be easily edited with Adobe Pro. It has proven difficult, to say the least, to figure out how to make this work.
Thanks in advance for any assistance.

1- Thank you
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?
3- This also totally sucks. In a standard Adobe Doc I can at least attach documents to it?
So, what, exactly then, is the purpose of LiveCycle if the only benefit it seems to provide is ease of creation, but the end product has way less functionality?
And how do I go about contacting an Adobe rep on the phone in regards to this without getting "there is no support for this product, go to Adobe.com"
We have millions of dollars of Adobe software and can't get support other than hunting and pecking in these forums? Really?

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