More support for Designer PDFs on Mobile

Looking at the number of posts here, it is clear that LiveCycle Designer is a very popular application, though I am not sure whether Adobe senior management are aware of this fact.
Hardly surprising - little in the way of competition, and Adobe's own offerings - Acrobat XI and FormsCentral - just don't offer the same combination of ease of use and powerful form design features.
It is also clear that many, many people who are using LiveCycle Designer are not using it in connection with the LiveCycle server products - so cannot choose to render the form as Flash/HTML5 - they have to rely on the PDF format.
Why then is it so difficult for Adobe to produce a Reader on Mobile that supports Designer PDF forms? - as far as I can see, even if I save an ES3 form as a Static PDF, users are unable to complete it using the latest Adobe Reader on Android.
I'd actually say that non-server linked use of LiveCycle Designer has increased in the last couple of years - but this is not going to continue if there is no way to - easily - get the form usable in Adobe Reader on Mobile.
I don't think that Adobe realise that by seeding technology like this at the 'cubicle dweller' level (i.e. available to an individual geek/bright spark even if the company has not bought into the server technology) actually does often lead to the company making that 'big purchase'. In short, middle managers get to see some of the great work that Mike/Martha has been doing in his/her cubicle, and slowly but surely news of the efficiencies progress up the food chain until someone is convinced enough to sign off the big server purchase.
From past experience, Adobe have shown that they don't understand this way of marketing their technology - they seem to rely on glossy ads aimed at C level execs, ridiculously high entry-level prices and making these prices hard to even get hold of. Well, if that was such a bright idea, why have they made such slow progress with (and even scaled back) LiveCycle.
Some of the LiveCycle tech is really great - e.g. LC Rights Management and Barcoded Forms - and they should have gotten far more penetration out there. If Adobe want LiveCycle to thrive, they need to change their ways.
And if anyone has a solution for Designer PDF forms on mobile (even static ones), please share. Thanks

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Technical support for Designer?

Open question for Adobe employees (I know you guys/gals read this - you are posting in other threads...): Who is providing technical support for Livecycle Designer?
After moving from the Flex community to the Livecycle community I get the sense that a few of the supporting applications for Livecycle are suffering "abandonment" issues. The UI's feel very "last gen" and basic features just are missing or just dont work properly. Getting any sort of technical support or product development roadmap just seems to not exist. Integration with many aspects are just plain clunky (ever tried creating custom guides with Flex for Livecycle?)
Is there any official response from Adobe on where this product is headed? Developer Blogs? Anything?

Who is providing technical support for Livecycle Designer?
The official technical support for organizations paying for support is Adobe Customer Support. If your organization has a support contract with Adobe and you encounter product failures or bugs, contact support http://www.adobe.com/support/livecycle/ and open a service request.
This forum and other user forums like it are the unofficial support vehicles for the user community to share their problems and solutions. Many Adobe employees and partners voluntarily monitor the forum and provide as much assistance as they can. Adobe employees are not required to contribute to the forum. They do so out of interest for the community and to enable those with less experience and knowledge to utilize the technology as it was intended. The same is true for many non-employees who actively support the forum.
Is there any official response from Adobe on where this product is headed?
If you have specific product concerns you should contact your Adobe sales representative or partner.
Developer Blogs? Anything?
Here is partial list of pertinent URLs:
Adobe Blogs - http://blogs.adobe.com/adobe-com-blogs
FormFeed (John Brinkman on form design) - http://blogs.adobe.com/formfeed/
LiveCycle Product Blog - http://blogs.adobe.com/livecycle/
Adobe Solution Partner Program - http://blogs.adobe.com/solutionpartners/
LiveCycle Developer Center - http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle.html
Adobe Enterprise Café - http://www.adobe.com/devnet/enterprise/cafe.html
Adobe Enterprise Developer Program - http://www.adobe.com/devnet/aedp.html
Steve

No more support for Tangent CP200 panels?

Have Adobe decide to drop support for Tangent CP200 panels?
The IP address configuration is no longer if preferences
Why?
Speedgrade was my only hope!
Will I have to learn and buy Scratch then?

The mappings are still there. I am looking at the tangent .xml file right now in speed grade, and it clearly says CP-200. The tangent.xml is a hidden file with in speedgrrade. Here is a section from that file.





Kevin

I can't believe that there is no more support for parts any mor

i can understand that software support need hardware ability. but spare parts? what on earth . i have 2 desk tops need power supply 2006 and 2008 and its look like apple stopped the spare parts for both of them . ok some of will wonder saing its tool old mac . my answer to them why we buy apple stuf ? because its last longer than the others. but what defrint its make if there is no more parts to last that long

So you took it to an Apple store or AASP and they told you they could not get parts for it?
-> https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Mac
-> http://www.macpartsonline.com/

Reports Sugestion - Data Template Support for Downloadable PDF Reports.

This is something that I miss in APEX reports that I would like to see. Right now I have BI Publisher tied to my APEX install but there are reports I would like to move over but I hate the fact that APEX does not have the ability to use BI Publisher XML Data Templates! It seems like if you have the integration this would be a natural thing to have so you could use complex report and APEX security (as I found a few issues in BI Publisher that are deal killers for running a few of my newer reports directly on BIP). Most of my reports are too complex and would require extensive XPath coding to setup using RTF templates. This just seems like something that would be very useful in APEX.

David:
I should have a whitepaper on this subject by the end of the month.
http://jastraub.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-changes-to-flexwsapi.html
I know this doesn't help you right now so I will describe how it works. Create a Manual Web reference as described on Tyler's blog, except for the SOAP Envelope, using something like:
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:pub="http://xmlns.oracle.com/oxp/service/PublicReportService" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<soapenv:Header/>
<soapenv:Body>
<pub:runReport soapenv:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/">
<reportRequest xsi:type="pub:ReportRequest">
<attributeFormat xsi:type="xsd:string">#P2_FORMAT#</attributeFormat>
<parameterNameValues xsi:type="pub:ArrayOfParamNameValue" soapenc:arrayType="pub:ParamNameValue[]"/>
<reportAbsolutePath xsi:type="xsd:string">#P2_ABS_PATH#</reportAbsolutePath>
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<userID xsi:type="xsd:string">#APP_USER#</userID>
<password xsi:type="xsd:string">#P101_PASSWORD#</password>
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</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
You can hardcode format to pdf if that is all you wish to download. You can also hardcode the userID parameter, reportAbsolutePath, and the password parameter if you wish. Use something like DOWNLOAD_DOCUMENT as the collection name.
Now create a page and create a before header process of type Web service that invokes this reference. The document's binary data will be stored in a node of an XML document in the collection encoded in base64 format. You will need another process that converts that to a BLOB and then presents a dialog to the browser to save the document. You can accomplish with a process like the following, after the call to the Web service:
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l_mime varchar2(48);
l_name varchar2(4000);
l_base64 clob;
l_blob blob;
l_size number;
l_xml xmltype;
l_ns varchar2(4000) default null;
l_path varchar(255) default '//multiRef';
begin
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l_name := 'test.pdf';
l_base64 := flex_ws_api.parse_response_clob('DOWNLOAD_DOCUMENT',l_path||'/reportBytes/text()',l_ns);
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l_size := dbms_lob.getlength(l_blob);
htp.init;
owa_util.mime_header( nvl(l_mime,'application/octet'), FALSE );
htp.p('Content-length: '||l_size);
htp.p('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="'||replace(replace(l_name,chr(10),null),chr(13),null)||'"');
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I hope that helps. Stay tuned for the white paper and sample application.
Regards,
Jason

Need consultency support for design of RF screens for IM

hi,
i want to know is there anybody knowing about desigining of RF screen for mobile data entry device(pda),if there is any experts on this knidly give me reply.or i want some document on this how to design and implement rf screens for mobile data entry.
Thanks,
Rammohan.

Hi,
You can check in the RFID forum that has lots of information on this topic, you can also go thro' the following weblog which may be helpful,
/people/john.carlson2/blog/2005/07/22/commissioning-rfid-tags-from-sap-part-ii-of-iii
Rgds,

ASC support for RFC 3957, with mobile IP

Does anyone know which version of ACS software supports RFC 3957, with mobile IP.
RB

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Please more support for the IPTC Headline tag!

The use of the IPTC Headline tag (as opposed to the Title tag) is being discussed in posts back to 2007.
Basically it's weird that Lightroom supports the Title tag with filters and search function whereas the Headline tag sees none of that treatment.
Per definition the Headline tag
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Support for multiple pdf document with signature

I have a question about signatures.
Does the PDF specification support the combination of multiple pdf documents into one pdf document with the following constraint:
- each individual pdf document has been signed (by an X.509 certificate),
- the individual documents can come from different sources, so they have to be 'included' or merged into the final pdf,
- the final pdf document should not change the signatures of the individual documents.
So each part of the document should maintain the integrity of the individual components and the signature of the individual comnponents are still valid.
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Ernst Jan

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Leonard

Latvian Language support for generated PDF's with FPDF module for PHP

Hello !
I have a problem with Adobe Reader for Android. I am working with online PDF creation with PHP module named FPDF.
With FPDF module for PHP you can create PDF's online.
The problem is that - when generated PDF appears on phone it doesn't show Latvian language ( cp1257 or ISO-8859-13 for example ). For example - "ŗķļņž" and "ŖĶĻŅŽ" is shown with other symbols.
However opening the same file with standart app "Polaris Office" - the text is show as it used to be, without problem.
Strange bug, that i can't fix from PHP ( Tried a lot of decodes and encodes ). Also i have saved PHP file with different encodings - nothing helped.

You might ask about this in the regular forum. There are several form experts there that may be able to help you.

I'm on a MacBook pro .. how can FF be kept from crashing, freezing, being slow in general, and get more support for Plugins (which break every time I update)? Thanks in advance, I really do want to see FF regain the glory it once had!

I've been using Firefox since version 1 and it's always been my #1 web browser of choice. Since version 4, Firefox has become my #3 browser of choice, behind Safari & Chrome. I would like FF to go back to being #1, because frankly FF 4 & FF 5 have been a royal pain in the a$$.
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Poetsave wrote:
I just bought my first Mac, Macbook Pro 15in 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB (two 2GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM, 320GB Serial ATA; 5400 rpm.
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James
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SMC Version: 1.27f1
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[SOLVED] WINE has no more support for xinput?

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I hope this falls under multimedia because my Windows graphics programs (Artrage, Photoshop) don't have pressure sensitivity any more. I've checked with GIMP and Xournal, xinput works fine there, though they are drastically less sensitive than their Windows counterparts (unfortunately). Unless there's a patch that makes GIMP understand more than 256 levels of pressure, I think I'll stick to photoshop.
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Last edited by feminaexlux (2008-09-27 22:30:00)

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Why no more support for AppleScript?

I am a graduate student, and I need to be able to cite sources easily. In the previous version of pages, I was able to use Papers2 to easily insert citations and build a bibliography. Now that function is no longer available. Until it returns, I will have to use word, as creating citations myself is a royal waste of time. Does Apple have any intention of bringing back this function?

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