I have several XDP files (made with Adobe LiveCycle Designer). All of these XDP files have several textfields, and what I would like is to export each XDP file to an XML file that only contains the textfields in the XDP.
The reason is that when working on the backend and mapping up values to the textfields in the XDP, it would be a lot easier to just look at an XML with the available textfields than to switch back and forth between Eclipse and Adobe LC Designer.
Is it possible to do this from within Adobe LC Designer or Adobe Acrobat?
I'm not sure your going about this the right way. I would open the xdp in (say) Ultraedit and use Find... (regular expression sorting out lines containing "
Anyway, here's your answer:
Open the xdp in LiveCycle
Designer.
Make sure all objects
are locked except fields
(Edit->Lock...)
Select everything
(by drawing a rect using the
mouse, ctrl-a won't do the trick!)
ctrl-c
Start a new document in your favourite text editor.
ctrl-v.
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We use a lot of PDF forms with embedded javascript. We generate PDFs from LibreOffice, then use Acrobat to add PDF controls and javascript. This isn't working well, because a change to the appearance of the form in LibreOffice then causes additional work in Acrobat to put the PDF controls back where they should be, and then re-do the javascript.
Is there a smart way to generate PDFs with the PDF controls built-in (text input boxes, check boxes, radio boxes, digital signature boxes), with all the javascript included in the source file?
For example, is there a tool that could convert an html form with embedded javascript into a PDF with the same javascript running in the PDF?
I have a two step process.
First, create the PDF using Adobe InDesign. InDesign can add PDF interactive PDF fields to your document so that when exported, the fields are present.
The second step is to use a script to add scripted actions to each field like this...
this.getField("foo").setAction("MouseUp", "app.beep(0);");
See the documentation for more actions.
I have this PDF ebook with selectable text - the handwriting - but there is no such font embedded and the letters are all different, so it's not actually a font. How is this possible?
I've worked with CorelDraw and Adobe Acrobat, but I can't understand how this works.
The left side of the picture shows the document properties, the right side shows a page of the PDF file and I selected the last 3 rows. I can copy and paste that to a text file, no problem. How was this achieved?
There are a few possibilities but the most likely is the text is being converted to outlines/paths or vectors. Some software such as Adobe InDesign and other print design apps allow you to 'flatten' a font based text into vector or paths, meaning the original font isn't required to be embedded or installed on the system. The original text data is however still present and able to be copied into a text field or word processor.
I made a PDF file from Latex (using TexMaker).
Acrobat Reader is able to display BOTH the text and the table of contents in Linux.
But Acrobat Reader is unable to display the table of contents in Windows XP (the Chinese characters came out as boxes). However, the text is displayed correctly.
I tried to embed the fonts into the PDF but the various methods are not 100% successful, so I'm not sure if the fonts are embedded correctly or not. Anyway, the table of contents remain unreadable in Windows.
I wonder if it is really an font embedding problem? Or do I need to install these "Adobe Reader X Font Packs":
https://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4883
My concern is that I'd like my PDF to be readable in Windows, including the table of contents (and preferably without further installations). If this is possible...
I suspect you are talking about "bookmarks" and not saying part of the text in the document is ok and part is not. PDF Bookmarks are part of the UI of the application and are not selected from embedded fonts. Therefore, the system you are running on needs to know how to handle fonts in the language(s) of choice.
See https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1144972?start=0&tstart=0
Embedding the fonts will have no effect on the bookmarks.
I have an embedded Adobe PDF Reader in my Windows application. When I open a certain PDF file I need to do is manually select a text in that PDF and transfer it over to a textbox. I haven't done much work with PDF embedded components. But I can see two potential solutions. Either to find where in embedded component selected text can be grabbed from or use a Clipboard to cut selected text and transfer it over to a textbox.
Can anyone help me with this? So to put it plainly I want to know how the best way to access text (selected or not) in embedded PDF Reader Component.
i would like to display a pdf on my winform and am thinking of using of those tools in my vb.net application. does anyone know the difference between the two?
Microsoft Report Viewer reads report definition files and displays the report. Adobe's PDF reader displays PDF files.
Report definition files != PDF files, so you would need to make sure that you use the right tool for the right job. If you need to read PDFs, use a PDF reader.
As for consuming a PDF on a WinForm, you could host a WebBrowser control and point to the PDF. Alternately, there are several WinForm control manufacturers that read and display a PDF file (though I've not used any of them so would not be able to recommend one over another). Examples would be:
http://www.tallcomponents.com/
http://www.skysof.com/