Re: Populated PDF form won't open
Hi Dave, Thanks for jumping in. Your knowledge is always greatly appreciated. On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Dave Watts wrote: > > When you say you created the PDF form in Acrobat Pro, you mean > LiveCycle Designer, right? Nope. I mean Acrobat 9 Pro, part of CS4. So there was no choice of form type. The odd thing is that the original form can be opened and used perfectly well in Reader 8. It's when I use CF to populate the form and re-save it that the resulting file causes the error. -- Thanks, Tom Tom McNeer MediumCool http://www.mediumcool.com 1735 Johnson Road NE Atlanta, GA 30306 404.589.0560 ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:321728 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: Populated PDF form won't open
> However, a client and I decided we wanted to have a little more control over > the format of the document, so we created a PDF form in Acrobat Pro. I'm > using cfpdfform and cfpdfformparams to dynamically populate the form fields > from the database. The resulting filled-in form is then saved with a > different file name to a different directory. > > The problem is, there seems to be some compatibility issue with the > filled-in versions. When they are opened in Acrobat Reader 7 or 8, the > result is an error message: "There was a problem reading this document > (131)." > > Since the document opens fine in Reader 9 or Preview, it seems like a > version compatibility problem. When you say you created the PDF form in Acrobat Pro, you mean LiveCycle Designer, right? When you saved the PDF, did you choose Static PDF Form or Dynamic XML Form? Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:321714 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Populated PDF form won't open
For some time, I have created PDF documents using the cfdocument tag, building the content with information pulled from a database, then saved as a PDF via cfdocument. No problems. However, a client and I decided we wanted to have a little more control over the format of the document, so we created a PDF form in Acrobat Pro. I'm using cfpdfform and cfpdfformparams to dynamically populate the form fields from the database. The resulting filled-in form is then saved with a different file name to a different directory. The problem is, there seems to be some compatibility issue with the filled-in versions. When they are opened in Acrobat Reader 7 or 8, the result is an error message: "There was a problem reading this document (131)." Since the document opens fine in Reader 9 or Preview, it seems like a version compatibility problem. Yet, when I tried to work around the problem by re-opening the final file and re-writing it (cfpdf action=write overwrite=true flatten=true), the error persists -- even when I add a "version" attribute of "1.4" (which a very old Acrobat version) to the cfpdf tag. Has anyone ever seen anything like this? -- Thanks, Tom Tom McNeer MediumCool http://www.mediumcool.com 1735 Johnson Road NE Atlanta, GA 30306 404.589.0560 ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:321710 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Populated PDF form won't open
For some time, I have created PDF documents using the cfdocument tag, building the content with information pulled from a database, then saved as a PDF via cfdocument. No problems. However, a client and I decided we wanted to have a little more control over the format of the document, so we created a PDF form in Acrobat Pro. I'm using cfpdfform and cfpdfformparams to dynamically populate the form fields from the database. The resulting filled-in form is then saved with a different file name to a different directory. The problem is, there seems to be some compatibility issue with the filled-in versions. When they are opened in Acrobat Reader 7 or 8, the result is an error message: "There was a problem reading this document (131)." Since the document opens fine in Reader 9 or Preview, it seems like a version compatibility problem. Yet, when I tried to work around the problem by re-opening the final file and re-writing it (cfpdf action=write overwrite=true flatten=true), the error persists -- even when I add a "version" attribute of "1.4" (which a very old Acrobat version) to the cfpdf tag. Has anyone ever seen anything like this? -- Thanks, Tom Tom McNeer MediumCool http://www.mediumcool.com 1735 Johnson Road NE Atlanta, GA 30306 404.589.0560 ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:321709 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
