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It's not possible to fill-in a pdf form (created from a pdf template) after sending it from Orbeon to Alfresco.

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wlau

It's not possible to fill-in a pdf form (created from a pdf template) after sending it from Orbeon to Alfresco.

Hi all,

I've created a pdf template under Acrobat Pro X and activated the Adobe reader extended function to allow users to fill-in my pdf form.
Then I've configured Orbeon in order to send my pdf form to Alfresco. The file is correctly sent to my repository (in Alfresco) but it's no longer possible to edit it with Adobe reader (same think when clicking on the "pdf" button in Form runner) --> A pop-up is dispalyed telling me that the adobe reader extended function has been desactivated (by Orbeon I guess).

Does someone has a solution please ? Do I have to add a property into the file "properties-local.xml" that forces Orbeon to not modify my pdf templates ?

Thanks for your answers

Wafa

Erik Bruchez

Re: It's not possible to fill-in a pdf form (created from a pdf template) after sending it from Orbeon to Alfresco.

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Wafa,

There is no such option at this time. The initial idea of PDF
generation in Orbeon Forms was to produce PDF for archival, and it's
best in that case not to be able to just open and modify them.

This said, we use iText to set field values. You can see the source
here if it helps:

https://github.com/orbeon/orbeon-forms/blob/master/src/scala/org/orbeon/oxf/processor/pdf/PDFTemplateProcessor.scala#L218

context.acroFields.setField()

I don't know if there is a way in iText to just set the value of the
field but keep it editable. If so, it would probably be possible to
add the option of keeping fields editable.

-Erik

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:51 AM, wlau <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've created a pdf template under Acrobat Pro X and activated the Adobe
> reader extended function to allow users to fill-in my pdf form.
> Then I've configured Orbeon in order to send my pdf form to Alfresco. The
> file is correctly sent to my repository (in Alfresco) but it's no longer
> possible to edit it with Adobe reader (same think when clicking on the "pdf"
> button in Form runner) --> A pop-up is dispalyed telling me that the adobe
> reader extended function has been desactivated (by Orbeon I guess).
>
> Does someone has a solution please ? Do I have to add a property into the
> file "properties-local.xml" that forces Orbeon to not modify my pdf
> templates ?
>
> Thanks for your answers
>
> Wafa
>
>
>
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