ergo----the iText solution. I have a server solution, spending very little money. I don't need a form server. The minimum setup, when I spoke to the consultant, was in 5 digits (very nearly 6) for 2 servers (live and test). Throw in a developer server, and it's even more ...just to flatten forms - something that I could do with a flag in the function call in previous versions. Even on the desktop, the solution to print to a file doesn't work... there are "security issues." (at least that was the case a number of years ago when I was attempting a solution with the desktop libraries).
Leonard, please understand that I have been researching this for some time - years. I've been on lots of forums, including Adobe's. You may have even commented once or twice. Every time someone says "all you have to do is," we run into..."well, not really." Having ways doesn't help if those ways comes at an astronomical price. Reducing that price a little by having us send our documents to the cloud doesn't help when we are talking about a) our volume and b) our reluctance to trust another company with other people's security. I have no doubt that the LiveCyle Server with all of its bells and whistles is worth the price. The problem is, I don't need ANY bells and whistles....I just need to be able to have expandable fields and flatten the form when I'm done. I don't need distribution, libraries, multi-developers, form-data-mailing, etc. I CERTAINLY don't need/want to rewrite our application into an Adobe application. I just need to flatten the form (LOTS of forms) - something I used to be able to do with a 'y' in the flatten parameter for no extra cost. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php
