On Mar 21, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Mike Vogt wrote:

> This is great news!  I can't try to emulate it right now, but I'll try in the 
> AM.  Just curious, I had added .FDF     FDF%20 prvw     application/vnd.fdf 
> to the extensionmap.ini, and we aren't using xfdf in any way, but you 
> consider .fdf a binary format?  It's really just plain text somewhat like xml.

I guess semi-text or semi-birary. I glanced at the PDF specifications and the 
FDF file format and most of it is, as you said text. I made my binary comment 
after opening the file in a text editor and it has parts that are like opening 
a PDF in a text editor - there are some high-bit characters that must have some 
meaning.  There are also some IDs in there that I'm not sure how they are 
generated.

If you can generate the file, great. Again, we tried the XFDF version of FDF - 
which is XML. We could get parts working, but not the whole enchilada. Think we 
were trying to send pre-filled forms to customers where they would update some 
data and submit the form. Just couldn't get it to fly right.


On Mar 22, 2010, at 6:45 AM, Mike Vogt wrote:

> I tried exactly what you have, and I get a white screen! What version of 
> everything are you using?  I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact 
> that I'm serving https (SSL) and not http?

4d 2004, Active4D 4.5, Mac OS X, Safari for browser

Don't think https has anything to do with it - we generate PDFs and serve them 
over https without any problems. That is using Apache as the front end. I'd 
guess the problem is more related to locating the PDF template or the browser 
putting the two together. Have you tried different browsers?

Have you tried opening up the fdf file directly in the browser using the file 
url (file:///disk/folder/../test.fdf)?  Does it launch Reader and open the 
template? Fills in the data? 

Steve Alex


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