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Creating a PDF template for use with Form Builder

jvelasquez

I'm trying to create a PDF template for use with Form Builder(orbeon 3.7.1).
The instructions mention using Adobe Form editor and listing the field name as
"section-name$field-name", however adobe livecycle designer does not allow "$"
characters in the field name.  Is their another way to do this or should I
attempt to use Open Office Draw program to create the PDF Forms.  Thanks in
advance.

http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/user-guide/form-builder-user-guide#TOC-PDF-generation


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Re: Creating a PDF template for use with Form Builder

Erik Bruchez
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Do you have access to Acrobat Professional 8? It does support "$"
signs in field names. Is livecycle designer more recent than that or
just different?

-Erik

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:25 PM,  <[hidden email]> wrote:

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> I'm trying to create a PDF template for use with Form Builder(orbeon 3.7.1).
> The instructions mention using Adobe Form editor and listing the field name as
> "section-name$field-name", however adobe livecycle designer does not allow "$"
> characters in the field name.  Is their another way to do this or should I
> attempt to use Open Office Draw program to create the PDF Forms.  Thanks in
> advance.
>
> http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/user-guide/form-builder-user-guide#TOC-PDF-generation
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Re: Re: Creating a PDF template for use with Form Builder

JeffL
You can use open office (not draw) to produce the layout with controls  
that have the correct names. Upload the resulting PDF and you are  
done. Obviously for use when you do not have or use acrobat prof.

Jeff


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On 02/12/2009, at 9:47 AM, Erik Bruchez <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Do you have access to Acrobat Professional 8? It does support "$"
> signs in field names. Is livecycle designer more recent than that or
> just different?
>
> -Erik
>
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:25 PM,  <[hidden email]>  
> wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to create a PDF template for use with Form Builder
>> (orbeon 3.7.1).
>> The instructions mention using Adobe Form editor and listing the  
>> field name as
>> "section-name$field-name", however adobe livecycle designer does  
>> not allow "$"
>> characters in the field name.  Is their another way to do this or  
>> should I
>> attempt to use Open Office Draw program to create the PDF Forms.  
>> Thanks in
>> advance.
>>
>> http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/user-guide/form-builder-user-guide#TOC-PDF-generation
>>
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Re: Re: Re: Creating a PDF template for use with Form Builder

jvelasquez

I'm using Acrobat 8.0 on windows.  It has very basic form editing than you can
do through Acrobat, they kind of force you to use Adobe Livecylce Designer for
most form editing(it comes bundled with acrobat), however once you edit a form
in lifecycle designer it is no longer editable in Acrobat.

You are right, if a form was not created using Livecycle Designer, you can use
a "$" character in the field name.  But you cannot use a "$" in livecylcle
designer which is what Adobe wants you to use on a windows pc.

I also noticed that you are using Acrobat on a mac and they do not use
Livecylce Designer, so it's a non-issue for macs.  Anywho, Open Office will do
just fine I was just pointing out some compatibility issues in your
instructions I guess.

Thanks for all the responses.


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Re: Re: Re: Re: Creating a PDF template for use with Form Builder

Erik Bruchez
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Thanks for reporting this. I added a note to the user guide:

http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/doc/user-guide/form-builder-user-guide

Possibly, we could in the future support another separator character.
Do you happen to know which character we could use that would work
with Lifecycle Designer?

-Erik

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:59 AM,  <[hidden email]> wrote:

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> I'm using Acrobat 8.0 on windows.  It has very basic form editing than you can
> do through Acrobat, they kind of force you to use Adobe Livecylce Designer for
> most form editing(it comes bundled with acrobat), however once you edit a form
> in lifecycle designer it is no longer editable in Acrobat.
>
> You are right, if a form was not created using Livecycle Designer, you can use
> a "$" character in the field name.  But you cannot use a "$" in livecylcle
> designer which is what Adobe wants you to use on a windows pc.
>
> I also noticed that you are using Acrobat on a mac and they do not use
> Livecylce Designer, so it's a non-issue for macs.  Anywho, Open Office will do
> just fine I was just pointing out some compatibility issues in your
> instructions I guess.
>
> Thanks for all the responses.
>
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Creating a PDF template for use with Form Builder

jvelasquez

According to the error message displayed in Livecycle Designer 8.0, "A name may
contain only letters, digits, underscores, periods and hypens."


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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Creating a PDF template for use with Form Builder

Erik Bruchez-3
Thanks. Quite restrictive.

-Erik

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