I've worked successfully with FDF's feeding local PDF's.
Just build your PDF's as usual. I assume you know where the PDF's are relative to the
Dir movies, so just build the path to the MotherDoc (PDF) and write it to your FDF
file. I played it safe and built an absolute path, since I have the PDF's on a CD and
write the FDF's to a user folder on the hard drive.
BUT I had a lot of trouble with PDF character encodings (octal) , so I had to build a
couple of conversion routines.
You can check them out, perhaps it can save you some trouble along the way:
--Must replace RETURN, Swedish chars & () with Acrobat escape codes:
on acroEncode inString
if NOT stringP(inString) then
put "acroEncode wasn't passed a string"
exit
end if
tmpString = inString
sLength = tmpString.length
outString = ""
repeat with i = 1 to sLength
currentChar = tmpString.char[i]
currentCharNum = charToNum(currentChar)
case currentCharNum of
(charToNum(RETURN)): put "\r" after outString
(charToNum("å")): put "\345" after outString
(charToNum("ä")): put "\344" after outString
(charToNum("ö")): put "\366" after outString
(charToNum("Å")): put "\305" after outString
(charToNum("Ä")): put "\304" after outString
(charToNum("Ö")): put "\326" after outString
(charToNum("(")): put "\(" after outString
(charToNum(")")): put "\)" after outString
otherwise
put currentChar after outString
end case
end repeat
return outString
end
--Must replace "\" with "\\" in FDF paths
on parseFDFpath inPath
outPath = inPath
if NOT stringP(outPath) then
put "parseFDFpath wasn't passed a string"
exit
end if
replaceChar = "\\" --Acrobat Forms Path Separator.
sLength = the number of chars in outPath
repeat with i = 1 to sLength
currentChar = charToNum(char i of outPath)
if currentChar = charToNum("\") then
put replaceChar into char i of outPath
sLength = the number of chars in outPath
i = i +1
end if
end repeat
return outPath
end
Bertil Flink
Creative Media
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Irv Kalb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---SNIP---
> If anyone has experience building PDF files with associated FDF
> files, can you please let me know if this claim of absolute file
> paths for the FDF file is correct? Or is there a way to specify a
> relative path - e.g., relative to the current program. If there is,
> please let me know how to do this, so I can inform my client. I find
> it hard to believe that Adobe could release such a product and
> require absolute file paths.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Irv
> --
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