The main risk is that you are dependent on the viewer to see the field but if you can control that I suppose that you are ok. I can have a flag to skip the creation of appearances for this special cases.
Best Regards, Paulo Soares ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich McAneny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Leonard Rosenthol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 23:20 Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Joining fields using acroform > (Disclaimer: First I must admit my knowledge of PDF is > limited and I have not worked with it for a year or > more, since I originally implemented it.) > > True, this does force ADOBE to regenerate this > information. Although, loading on the client takes a > lot less than the 10-12 seconds it takes on the server > - which the user also has to wait for. > > Now if there are potential rendering issues then that > could be a problem. Isn't ADOBE rebuilding the > appearances from the original fields added during the > creation of the form, similar to what iText is doing? > If not where does it get the appearances - both during > this 'rebuilding' of the appearances and whenever a > form is edited using Adobe? > > What sort of problems are likely to come up? (We are > using only Text fields - and these forms are read-only > forms.) > > We have been using this method with another package > for a year or more with no noticable problems. We have > been using Reader 3 and 4 and Acrobat 4, but mostly > version 4 of each. > > Thanks for your help! > > Rich > > > --- Leonard Rosenthol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 01:10 PM 4/4/2003 -0800, Rich McAneny wrote: > > >In working with another PDF package, I found that > > >there is a PDF value(?) called: > > > > > >/NeedAppearances true > > > > > >which I needed to add to the AcroForm Object. (This > > >caused the Appearances to be rebuilt by PDF. > > > > Using NeedAppearances is BAD - it's > > behavior is inconsistent with > > different versions of Adobe Acrobat (and OS > > platforms) and is useless on in > > other PDF Viewers. > > > > iText does form filling the CORRECT way by > > generating correct > > appearances for the data as it fills it in. > > > > > > > > >I tried this using iText and it worked as well. > > Below > > >is the code that I used/changed. It dropped the > > >creation time from 14-15 seconds down to 2-3. > > > > Because you left appearance generation for > > client side, so that > > your user will have to wait longer for their forms > > to appear - IF they > > appear at all! I suggest you spend some time trying > > this with different > > versions of Acrobat 3 vs. 4 vs. 5 vs. 5.1, and > > Reader vs. Approval vs. > > Acrobat. You will find some that the user > > experience will vary greatly AND > > in some cases will be unacceptable (since the user > > will see the WRONG THING!). > > > > > > Leonard > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > --- > > Leonard Rosenthol > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Chief Technical Officer > > <http://www.pdfsages.com> > > PDF Sages, Inc. > > 215-629-3700 (voice) > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more > http://tax.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: > Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! > No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server > http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
