Optimizing rendering speed in dynamic form (subforms)

Hi
I have a form with 4 pages. Each page has 2-4 subforms. I am looking for info on how you can optimize the speed of showing/hiding subforms.
In my form the user clicks a checkbox and I show a hidden subform. The Subform takes 3-5 secs. to show - that is too much considering reader is running the form locally.
My page1 has a layout with a lot of static text, fields and linies etc. If I delete this section the speed improves to about 1 sec. I know how to merge static texts but often it makes it unflexible to edit them later.
Any great ideas on how to make dynamic layout i big forms (with lots of contents) AND still be able to show/hide subforms at a acceptable speed??
** I hope Adobe will improve the preformance in comming versions cause dynamic forms serve no improvement in user interaction when so slow!
/Thomas Groenbaek
Denmark

This happens when you use a global binding and set the parent container to repeat for each data item.
For more detailed answer I need to see your form.

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Am "stacking" my subforms incorrectly and setting the wrong subform to Flow Content? Or, can you now lock a field to a specific position? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Unfortunately, I hadn't understood that you needed the fields to expand in height and everything below them to move down the page. In that case, you'll need to use flowed subforms.
Having all objects move to the left side of the page is expected when setting a subform to flowed. That's because the flow is top-down, left-right.
One thing you could try is making the text field that needs to be centered exactly as wide as the flowed subform and then setting its left- and right-hand margins to an equal number. This would ensure an equal amount of space on the left- and right-hand sides and because the field would be as wide as its flowed container (subform), entering multiple lines of text would result in everything below moving down.
I've attached a sample form where the page subform has been set to flowed, the text field at the top is a multi-line/height-expandable text field with its width set to the page width and its left- and right-hand margins both set to 2in and the button and check box objects are pushed below the text field.
When text is entered into the text field, it expands in height and causes the button and check box to move down.
To achieve other horizontal and vertical positioning/offsets, you could play with the margins of all the fields that need this.
Stefan
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Paul, thanks for your help. I've figured out the problem, although perhaps you can tell me what the underlying issue is. In the repeating subform the text areas that I was setting were defined as Text objects. Redefining them as TextField objects has fixed the problem. Any idea why setting the raw value of a TextField is different than a Text object? I originally didn't need to use a text field because these are non fill-in text areas on the form. Once again, this was only an issue if the form output was set to static rather than dynamic.
Regards,
Kevin

I am trying to get better playback rendering speed Premiere CS6

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Hello,
I have designed a dynamic form, where user can add rows dynamically by clicking a button on the form, the form is working fine in preview in designer.
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There is a space in the expression "somExpres sion".
Just remove the space and try. I don't see any other problem in your logic.
-Nith

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Hi guys,
I'm having a problem accessing the property "richValue" of a text field.
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Hi all,
I have a strange problem that I'm having trouble getting to the bottom of, relating to my dynamic form.
This form grows and shrinks depending on how the user fills it out. I have a questionnaire section where certain questions are hidden or shown depending on previous input.
Things get interesting when I look at the tab order. Sometimes when tabbing forward or backward across page breaks, the focus lands on a spot that I cannot identify. There will be no cursor and I can not type. However if I continue to tab in the same direction, I can see that it is still going in the correct sequence. It just looks like for some reason, in those places, focus is put in the wrong component. But if I type different input into the prior fields (ones that affect the length of the pages) that causes the field to move to different place where it's not adjacent to a page break, and then tabbing to the field in either direction works fine. It seems that only when it's beside a page break, it becomes problematic.
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http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/p52549088/.
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Hello Dave,
I can't say I've seen issue 1 before and would recommend contacting support.
For item 2 I would suggest wrapping your 'line' of text in a subform then creating a script to use the setInstance method for that subform.
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You may also want to put in some validation against the NumberOfLines field to ensure it has a value.
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I'm new to PDF forms and designer. I have encountered 2 issues that I can't get around.
1 - PDF Preview - When I go from "body pages" to "PDF Preview" it goes into a script saying it can't download from a website and errors out. I believe it worked properly for awhile. Is this normal ? I tried to reload and repair my acrobat, but to no avail.
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Hello Dave,
I can't say I've seen issue 1 before and would recommend contacting support.
For item 2 I would suggest wrapping your 'line' of text in a subform then creating a script to use the setInstance method for that subform.
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You may also want to put in some validation against the NumberOfLines field to ensure it has a value.
I hope that helps.

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