Comments on: Previewing as Dynamic PDF

By: Stefan Cameron

Stefan Cameron — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:24:05 +0000

Geno,

Isn’t this a killer? Even after writing this post, I still get caught sometimes! Glad it helped.

By: Geno

Geno — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:10:39 +0000

Stefan – you are a champion. I spent a whole day figuring out why I couldn’t get your Expandable Table example to work. I was going nuts pulling my hair out until I found this.

By: Stefan Cameron

Stefan Cameron — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:45:26 +0000

Joe,

It sounds like Designer isn’t recognizing that you have either Acrobat or Reader installed. I would try re-installing one of them to see if it re-enables the PDF Preview tab.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:08:45 +0000

Hi Stefan,

I cannot preview a form in Designer 8.2. I have Acrobat 9.0 and reader 9.1 installed. I checked both of their internet settings and they are checked. I had it this morning when I was updating an old form, now it’s greyed out in the menu, and missing from the window. Any suggestions?

Joe

By: Stefan Cameron

Stefan Cameron — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:36:14 +0000

Mark,

Do you have Acrobat and/or Reader installed on your computer? What’s the behaviour, in Designer, that leads you to believe you cannot preview a form?

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:59:38 +0000

I cannot preview a form in LiveCycle Designer 8. I tried your steps above and it did not work. Any other suggestions?

Thanks,

Mark

By: Aldo

Aldo — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:54:16 +0000

Thanks Stefan… I was about to kill myself.

By: Stefan Cameron

Stefan Cameron — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:42:46 +0000

Daniel,

I’m not aware of a size limit on XDP forms.

As for getting a dynamic PDF from LC Forms, you should be able to control that by setting the “File > Form Properties > Defaults tab > Server section > PDF Render Format property” to “Dynamic XML Form” (in Designer 8.2 — you’ll find something similar, related to server-side rendering, in previous versions of Designer as well).

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:07:13 +0000

Hi Stefan,

I have resolved my first error. i was right thinking it was an error about xdp size. LC has a Default document max inline size of 64KB. It can be changed in LiveCycle AdminUI, Settings->Core System Settings->Configurations and set a value of 1MB, for example (with this new value I haven’t any errors)

i still have the second error. My pdf is a static form, how can i get it like dynamic form?

Thank you in advance. Regards

Daniel

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:20:34 +0000

Hi Stefan,

i have two problems using Livecycle Forms. I don’t know if it’s the right category for my questions but i hope you could help.

I have done a xdp file and a java servlet which calls to LC Forms. Forms render this xdp and send me a pdf which I can save and work with it. But, if I add some images, fields or someone else to my xdp file, LC Forms send me a pdf file with this error (it’s a traslate, it can be wrong) “The file does not begin with PDF”.

I have tested my xdp and I think this problem can be because there is a limit on xdp’s size. Actually my xdp is 774Kb. If I add a text in it, for example, its size is 775Kb and i have that error from LC Forms. Is there any restriction about size in a xdp? Any idea about this error?

And another and simple question is, when LC Forms sends me a pdf without errors, this pdf is a static form. How can I get a dynamic pdf? Do i have to use LC ReaderExtensions, for example?

thanks in advance.

Daniel