IPad use for offline PDF submit

For iPad use, is there yet any way to use the offline PDF formfiller with the active "submit" button to send responses back to the FormsCentral server? Ipad use is key for my field sales team. The "submit" button is missing when the PDF is opened through Adobe Reader (mobile) on the iPad (iPad4 iOS 7.1). Is this because iPads do not have "Flash" and is there any workaround?

Hi;
You have two options for "offline" PDF workflow with the iPad.
One is to use an Acrobat Email workflow, not collecting responses in FormsCentral but adding a Submit button in Acrobat to email the form responses to you. When users fill out the PDF and click Submit it will queue the email, when online again those emails would be sent and you'd get the responses.
Using FormsCentral is a little more work in the offline case, see this response from Genevieve where she describes how to do it: http://forums.adobe.com/message/5339644#5339644
That info aside, the Submit button in a FormsCentral PDF should work fine in Adobe Reader Mobile for iOS. Are you sure users are opening the PDF in Adobe Reader mobile? The Submit button would be missing if Preview was used to view the PDF on the iPad.
Thanks,
Josh

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Currently, I have 5 iPads used for the same purpose. Since the same data /application is shared among all of these iPads, is it alright for me "Backup" only 1 iPad instead of all 5? And if anything happens to any my iPads which I have not backed up, I can restore it from the iPad where I have save the Backup. I am hoping by doing so, I will also be able to save some icloud storage space. Let me know if my question is still not so clear to you guys. Thanks.

Hello PeachY1234,
If I understand correctly you'd like to save iCloud storage space by only backing up 1 of the 5 iPads to your account since they are all going to have very similar data and usage. You certainly can do that, but I do have to warn you that any unique data between them would be lost if you had to restore from that one backup made on another iPad so just keep that in mind. If you do need to restore in the future you can use this article to restore that iCloud backup:
iCloud: Restore or set up your iOS device from iCloud
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Sterling

Setting 'Content Copying' as 'Not Allowed' for offline PDF

Hi,
Can anyone help on the following scenario?
Generate a PDF that does not allow user to copy contents within the PDF.
Setting the Document Restriction - 'Content Copying' as 'Not Allowed'
As this PDF is to be open offline, there will be no direct connection to the livecycle server hence not able to connect to the Rights Management Server to verify the policy.
How can this be achive?
Ryan.

Ryan
You are correct in your understanding. Just to clarify one point though, the client machine does require the "Principal" key be downloaded from the RM server and "Synchronize for offline" is one way to get the key. In addition to this, when a user "authenticates" to the RM server to open a policy protected document, a "synchronization" occurs in the background and if there are "new" principal keys for other policies they will be downloaded even if they are not reklated to the document the user is currently accessing.
Now, in addition to Rights Management, Adobe has two other "encryption" options.
You could password protect the document to prevent "content copying", but this is not a very secure option, password protection is easily cracked, there is no user authentication, and third party PDF viewers may not respect\enforce the password protection.
Another option, which is very secure is to use the "Encrypt with certificates" option, where the PDF is encrypted for a user based on the users x509 certificate (public key). The user then uses their corresponding private key to authenticate themselves and view the document. Encrypt with certificates allows you to enforce authentication and you can allow\deny the same "permissions" that you can with RM protection. There is no requirement for a server, but the "certificate management" (certificate creation\provisioning\revocation) capability requires a PKI. Also, the user will need to have their private key available to open the document.
Hope this helps.
Steve

How do I create DRM Licenses that can be used for Offline Playback?

[ Background ]
Typically, a license is acquired from the DRM license server when the client video player encounters a video that is DRM-protected.   However, some use cases call for the ability for end-users to be able to play DRM content when a network connection is not available to the device.
For example - the user wants to download a video from their home, acquire a license to play the content, and then get onto a train/airplane where a network connection isn't available. On the train/airplane/etc..., the end user expects to be able to watch their video that they downloaded at home.
[ DRM Policy Requirements ]
For this use case to be possible, the DRM license must be acquired when the network connection is available. In addition, the DRM license must be allowed to persist on the device disk. For this to be possible, one value must be present in the DRM policy:
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[ Workflow ]
Now that the content has been packaged with a DRM policy that allows for offline caching (persistance) of a license, the video player simply has to acquire the license before the network connection is lost. This can be accomplished via the typical API calls that the Video Player Application Developer would use to do a normal DRM license acquisition (DRMManager.loadVoucher()).
For example, by using the DRMManager ActionScript3 API: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/net/drm/DRMManage r.html
For other platforms supported by Adobe Access DRM (iOS, Android, etc...), please refer to the appropriate documentation around playback of DRM content on how to pre-fetch the DRM license.
[ Workflow - iOS ]
Enabling offline playback using the Primetime Media Player SDK (PSDK) for iOS requires a bit of self-extraction & instantiation of the DRM Metadata from the m3u8. The reason for this is that as of PSDK v1.2, the PSDK APIs do not expose an mechanism for extracting the DRM metadata.
You must manually (outside of the PSDK) get access to the DRM Metadata, instantiate a DRMContentData, and then use the DRMManager class to obtain a license for your content. Afterwards, you may download your HLS content and stream it to your video player application locally. Since the DRM license was pre-acquired before playback of the downloaded HLS content, your video player application does not require a network connection to acquire a DRM license. Below is a code sample of obtaining the DRM Metadata from the m3u8 manifest and then using it with the DRMManager singleton.
/*          Main entry points, playlistURL is url to a top level m3u8. */
void PlayContent(NSURL* playlistURL)
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// First we need a handler for any errors that may occur
                    DRMOperationError errorHandler = ^(NSUInteger major, NSUInteger minor, NSError* nsErr)
/*          report error. */
/*          Synchronous call to DRM manager to extract DRM metadata out of the playlist. */
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                                                                                  error:errorHandler
                                                                                updated:^(NSURL *newPlaylist, DRMMetadata *newMetadata)
                               (void) newPlaylist; /*          updated URL is not used for this code sample. */
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Theoretically, it is possible to save the HLS stream to the app, and then embed an HTTP server to the app to stream the HLS content back into the application. However, the Primetime client SDK doesn't not expose a way to do this directly, since it's not yet supported.
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It appears that Revel can't be used for offline viewing

If I have my iPad airplane mode on, I am unable to view photos or if the photo is displayed it is very very blurry. I concluded that Revel must have an internet connection, which also means that it will eat into my data plan and since it appears the photos are not stored on my iPad, viewing photos is slower and will also be slower if there is an internet connection but is a slow internet connection.
Am I correct on all counts?

Hello,
You do need an wifi connection to download thumbnails for previewing your images in Revel on your Ipad. When you view your photos with out a wifi connection, Revel will show you a cached thumbnail of the image but its not the full resolution. To see the full resolution of the image, you do need to be connected to the wifi as Revel downloads and caches the full resolution of the image from the cloud service.
I tested this as I viewed an album of photos, clicked on a 5 out of 7 images and viewed them in loupe view(single image). These images showed the full resolution, then turned off the wifi on the ipad. The remaining 2 images still did show but did show a bit blurry. This is because I did not view the image in loupe view to download the thumbnail. I then turned back on the wifi and viewed the image again as Revel was able to view the image in the full resolution. I hope that didn't sound to confusing. If you view your images in single loupe view this will cache the image for offline viewing. Granted its best to be connected to wifi as it does not take too long to download the images.
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Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening/Late Night to whoever is out there!
I have recently been trying to get my parents to take a technological leap, and purchase an iPad. Besides their basic cell phones and television, they have a boulder of a dell desktop pc, which runs slower than molasses, and don't really interact with technology since my dad's atari when he was a boy. They argue the fact that it seems too expensive (they do have wireless internet in their condo so it wouldn't be data fees) and not worth the trouble of having to carry it around, my dad likes to complain if you can't tell by now!
I think they would really enjoy the ability to face time or skype with my children and my brother's kids, email with us more, among other things to keep them busy.
I was hoping that I could have some help from others on the discussion board. I want to point out more apps and uses for them in my argument, i know the basic uses and the benefits of touch screen and certain games but am hoping to find cool things that would really make them go "wow".
If you have any stories of a similar situation, or are of that age and made the jump yourself, it would be great to hear from you!
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This is an excellent question. Much would depend on the physical abilities (and age) of the person involved.
Some may find it easier to type directly on a screen vs a keyboard because of wrist issues.
Being able to pull the Ipad very close to one's eyes may also be a benefit.
It is also a lot easier to carry from room to room, but also easier to drop.
But moving the cursor may be more difficult on the Ipad if one is doing email.
Some may enjoy being able to review and move through pictures of grandkids on the Ipad easily and then taking them to the neighbor's house to show.
And the ease of use of apps for newspapers and news programs may be a benefit.

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I have an original iPad 1 that's my personal iPad. Since I got an iPhone 5S over a year ago, I almost never use the iPad as it's so frustratingly slow compared to the 5S, and most of the most recent apps don't work on iOS 5.1.1.
I work for a small consulting firm where a large part of my responsibilities is business development. 2-2.5 years ago, I started occasionally needing an iPad for doing sales presentations of enterprise software. So, I purchased and expensed a then cutting edge 4th Gen iPad. For work purposes, I've always kept this iPad nearly completely empty except for essential software. In the past 6 months, I've needed this iPad less and less for said presentations. I'm down to not even turning it on once a month, and have gone 3 months at a time without touching it. That said, there's always a chance I'll find out that a week from now I'll need to fly somewhere and do a demo using it.
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Besides the time it takes to wipe and restore the iPad, are there any downsides to the above process?
Is there any reason I cannot wipe my iPad 1 and sell it/donate it?
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Ah, MBA makes more sense. Unfortunately, the point of demoing on the iPad is to explicitly show that the enterprise software is iPad compatible and what it looks like on it. Everyone's a skeptic, so I definitely have to use the actual iPad and not emulation software.
As far as overwriting a backup, I would think that the only backups ever visible would be those for the account i'm currently logged in as. I don't see how it's plausible then to overwrite any in the wrong account. Again, these are 100% separate accounts that have nothing at all connecting them. If it were possible, wouldn't the people who sell their iDevices on ebay be complaining about how the recipients deleted their iCloud backups. I'm effectively transferring the device in the same way...just between by own 2 disconnected accounts instead of 2 humans with 2 disconnected accounts.
I don't really view it as a time drain, as when switching accounts I'd just "Reset all settings," and walk away. I'd later log in as the other user, and would walk away again while the iPad just automatically starts loading everything up. I'm not sitting there waiting for it, as this is merely a luxury device that I've never once had an immediate need for. It's just a "nice to have."
Again, this transfer would likely only be happening once every 6 weeks anyway. The majority of the time it would be set up on my personal account.
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import com.adobe.formServer.interfaces.*;
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