XDP Merging

[Running LiveCycle ES2 SP2]
I have about 30 XDP's on the server and we have a form guide where the customer will select the forms they would like. Once they have selected the forms a request is sent to LiveCycle to pull the XDP's, merge them and then convert to an interactive PDF. I am having the following issues:
We can't stitch XFA based PDFs using the LC process(Assembler). So we are trying to implement the functionality by stitching the XDPs together and to convert the merged XDP to PDF document. We are getting the merged XDP's, but we have to pass the "MergedXDP" document variable to an activity for converting to a PDF.
There are three activities that support XDP to PDF conversion that we have tried,
1 Forms - RenderPDFForm
In this case It is taking only an input of type string and expect a path where the XDP is placed in the LC server. In our case we have to give the intermediate result(Merged xdp) as a 'document' type as input. So this does not seem to help us.
2. Output - generatePDFOutput2
This is working but we are getting a flattened PDF as result. As this is Output ES activity, It will provide only flattened PDF as output, but we need non-Flattened output and we have to use renderPDFForm or convertXDPtoPDF where we are getting the error.
3. PDF Utilities - convertXDPtoPDF
We are getting "Required PDF element missing from XDP" error. We are not able to correct this..
Any help would be appreciated.

Here RenderPDFForm service will be useful:
In Input--> * Form--> by Default Literal Value is selected.
Chnage it to Variable and assign the document type variable.
Thanks

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[email protected] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 4 different XDP templates and the pdfs are rendered for each template perfectly . So in all 4 different PDFS are generated during runtime. All the 4 templates have different Master Page . My question is can we merge the 4 templates so that only one PDF get generated?
>
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>
> Thanks,
>
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XDP data import in Acrobat 9

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I'm not sure I understand "stand-alone app". Are you saying to drag the PDF to the browser? How do I get the data in XDP to then merge with it?
The problem is that the XDP, when using href to load PDF from web server, will always open up in default browser. No way around that. Unfortunately, the PDF can only be loaded this way - it won't be sitting on the desktop with the XDP.
Right now, our web-based application on the server is dynamically generating the XDP based on a selected source PDF template, then sending the XDP to the client. The goal is to allow client to open XDP, which requests the PDF through href and merges the data to template - and client can then make changes (if needed) and save it as PDF from there. A one-step approach as it were.
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I am trying to merge xdps using document builder in LiveCycle workbench. Basiclly I am using the option "Dynamic stitching" in document builder to merge more then one xdps. So I am able to do it when my xdps are not having any fragments.
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Ashish

One probable reason is that the individual XDPs have incorrect fragment references. Have you checked out
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/521/cpsid_52158.html
Any subtle mistakes in the path like a folder name specified twice in the path (as it was programmatically generated?), or an extra forward slash, etc.?
Did you try to render these XDP forms (with fragments) individually using LiveCycle process orchestration/API?

Merging data with LiveCycle questions

I have LiveCycle Designer 8.0 and I didn't find a forum for it so just point me in the right direction if this is not the place.
I have a couple of questions with merging data with Livecycle PDFS
1. XDP is the file format for merging data with LiveCycle created PDFs (FDF was with Acrobat)? if not, what is the format?
2. We want different colors of the same PDF without actually making the different PDFS, is there a way we can do this through the merging the data? For example: In the XDP file, we specify the color of the border of a rectangle. When the PDF merges with the data, will the PDF be able to change the border of the rectangle with the specified color?
3. Can a picture (a specific size) be merged in the PDF?
Thanks!

1. XDP is the file format for merging data with LiveCycle created PDFs (FDF was with Acrobat)? if not, what is the format?
An XDP file is simply an XML file that packages a PDF file in XML, along with XML form and template data. Data can be merged from generic .xml or the XML version of FDF called XFDF.
2. We want different colors of the same PDF without actually making the different PDFS, is there a way we can do this through the merging the data? For example: In the XDP file, we specify the color of the border of a rectangle. When the PDF merges with the data, will the PDF be able to change the border of the rectangle with the specified color?
Yes. Consider a field called 'firstName'. I can add a script to the form:ready event that checks the value of the data merged with the field and changes the border edge color to red if the data is not equal to 'Steve'.
// customer.page1.firstName::ready:form - (JavaScript, client)
if (this.rawValue != "Steve") {
this.border.edge.color.value = "255,0,0";
3. Can a picture (a specific size) be merged in the PDF?
Yes.
Steve

Xdp data not populated in PDF form

Dear All,
We currently develop XFA forms using Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8 (as part of acrobat professional). recently when clients upgraded to Adobe Reader 9.1 or 9.2, when they open an XDP file, the PDF appears without any data population as if the pdf was opened without the xdp file. when creating the form there is no option of target version however the forms are saved as Acrobat 8 Dynamic Forms. Do you know what could be the problem. The same is hapening with fdf data which when you open, the PDF opens without population as well. Help is appreciated Thanks.

I tried that first (without the save), but the resulting PDF had no form data from the XDP. That's when I added the save.
The merging seems to fail when run from batch, but it works fine when I open and then save the file in Acrobat Pro or Reader.
Is there a command in the batch processing that is necessary to move the data from the XDP to the resulting PDF? Will the proper Save command do the trick? [I left work early due to our snow so I can't try this myself.]
--Peter

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