Opening the fdf directly in either ie or firefox works just fine, the pdf is located and the data populated. There are no high bit characters in our fdf file. Maybe I'll try 4D 2004 and active4d 4.5 and see what happens...
Thanks! Mike > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:active4d-dev- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Alex > Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 8:23 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Active4d-dev] Fusebox fbx_layouts.a4d question > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Active4D-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/mailman/listinfo/active4d-dev > Archives: http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/archive/active4d-dev/ _______________________________________________ Active4D-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/mailman/listinfo/active4d-dev Archives: http://mailman.aparajitaworld.com/archive/active4d-dev/
