You are correct, I meant acroform fields. ACROBAT told me I couldn't flatten Live Cycle forms. Everything in the documentation that I've found says that live cycle forms do not flatten.
I didn't mean I had to buy all the modules, but I DO have to buy the server
PLUS the module.
Where are these solutions? Desktop solutions, or solutions requring
user-intervention, don't help me. I've been asking for them for about 5
years now and the response that I ended up getting FROM ADOBE was to use
read-only forms.
As you say:
For server-side flattening, you do need to the Forms component of
LiveCycle - but you don't have to purchase all the other modules.
Yes, I need a server-side solution and I have to purchase the server to get
the forms component. How much does that cost?
I need what acroforms has always provided...a way to save the file flat.
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From: Leonard Rosenthol <lrose...@adobe.com>
To: Post all your questions about iText here
<itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net>
Date: 01/14/2014 09:57 AM
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Making text fields grow to accommodate
text
[I realize this is an iText list and Bruno can smack me when he gets back
from the US, but I feel the need to correct errors]
Edward, I think you have some facts incorrect here.
> XFA fields don't expand
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They most certainly DO expand - that's one of the benefits of XFA over
AcroForms. Perhaps you meant that AcroForm fields don't expand??
> Livecycle documents don't flatten
>
I assume by LiveCycle documents you mean XFA-based PDFs, yes? If so, that
is also not correct. Adobe offers both desktop and server-side solutions
for flattening XFA and has for almost 15 years (since we introduced XFA).
Where did you learn that you couldn't flatten them?
> Live Cycle Server AND the module we needed to flatten LC forms
>
For server-side flattening, you do need to the Forms component of
LiveCycle - but you don't have to purchase all the other modules.
Alternatively, we offer a library (similar to iText) that enables this as
well if you wish to build your own solution.
All that said - Adobe is VERY HAPPY that the iText folks have invested in
XFA support in their product and will continue to support them in this
endeavor.
Leonard
On 1/14/14 5:36 PM, "edward_gi...@ilnb.uscourts.gov"
<edward_gi...@ilnb.uscourts.gov> wrote:
>FWIW, this has been the bane of my PDF life for a number of years now.
>XFA fields don't expand and Livecycle documents don't flatten. Talking to
>Adobe was useless. They didn't understand and simply didn't seem to care.
>When they DID come out with a solution, I was to try to convince my boss
>to
>purchase the entire Live Cycle Server AND the module we needed to flatten
>LC forms. I couldn't justify the outrageous expense just to flatten a
>form. Adobe's final response to me was to use read-only forms as my final
>output...even though I TRIED to explain that a read-only form is STILL a
>form...it's NOT a flat document.
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>THANK YOU itext!! They came to the rescue with XFA Worker. Now I can
>flatten Live Cycle forms! I've been using it in our test environment for
>a
>couple of months and recently moved it into our live environment. Every
>once in awhile there is a form that doesn't come out QUITE right, but the
>people at iText have been very responsive to my reports.
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>Back when I first found iText, I sent a message thanking and praising them
>for a product that served us very well from the first hour that I picked
>it
>up. I can't speak highly enough of them. It took awhile to develop an
>answer to the LiveCycle issues created by Adobe, but iText has come
>through
>again. It IS a little convoluted, but it's the best (heck, it's the only)
>real solution out there.
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>From: "Kostas" <k...@dataverse.gr>
>To: "'Post all your questions about iText here'"
> <itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net>
>Date: 01/13/2014 08:51 AM
>Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Making text fields grow to
accommodate
> text
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>Thanks a lot.
>That would be a nice solution, although it requires me to buy Adobe
>LiveCycle Designer.
>But, I guess, nothing else is humanly possible.
>I will try some possible workarounds first and if they don¹t help I will
>consider moving to your solution.
>
>Thanks again. J
>
>From: iText mailing list [mailto:i...@1t3xt.info]
>Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 6:01 PM
>To: Post all your questions about iText here
>Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Making text fields grow to accommodate text
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>On 1/13/2014 7:58 AM, Kostas wrote:
> I would like to do something like that too, using iText.
>
>If you create a dynamic form using XFA technology using Adobe LiveCycle
>Designer, you can fill it out with iText and flatten it with XFA Worker.
>You can't expect an AcroForm based form to expand automagically.
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