I need help - I can help - HTTP SUBMIT BUTTON DOES NOT WORK AFTER SAVETOFILE

HTTP SUBMIT BUTTON DOES NOT WORK AFTER SAVETOFILE

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Topic: HTTP SUBMIT BUTTON DOES NOT WORK AFTER SAVETOFILE

Posted By: rcunning411
Subject: HTTP SUBMIT BUTTON DOES NOT WORK AFTER SAVETOFILE
Date Posted: 05 Jul 12 at 6:19PM

I have a PDF file created using LIVECYCLE 8.0

I can open it in ADOBE READER x ... it lets me fill out the form, and click the SUBMIT button.

This submits the FORM DATA as NAME/VALUE pairs to my webserver

NOW My QUICK PDF ACTIVEX control is OPENING the file as mentioned above, and RE-SAVING IT

as follows.

BB=Createobject("QuickPDFAX0816.PDFLibrary")
BB.UnlockKey("MYLICENSEcode here")
BB.LoadFromFile(MYPDFFILEHERE,"")
BB.RemoveXFAEntries(1)

! THIS CODE BELOW SIMPLY POPULATES FIELDS ON THE FORM

! THIS IS VISUAL FOXPRO BUT DOESN'T MATTER

! AS YOU CAN SEE IT SIMPLY WRITES MY DATA TO THE PDF FILE

! THEN SAVES IT AS A NEW FILE

! THE NEW FILE IS THEN OPENED IN ADOBE READER BUT THE

! SUBMIT BUTTON NOW DOES NOT WORK AND DOES NOTHING

For fKnt=0 To toFormCollection.ChildNodes.Length-1

lItem=toFormCollection.ChildNodes(fKnt)
lcFieldName=lItem.NodeName
lcFieldValue=lItem.Text

=setpdfformfieldbyname(lcFieldName,BB,lcFieldValue)
Endfor

* Now Save up new form and open it
BB.Savetofile(tcNewFileName)

ANY HELP Would be GREAT !

Replies:

Posted By: Ingo
Date Posted: 06 Jul 12 at 6:57AM

Hi!

Working with QuickPDF or any other third party library
on a adobe livecycle-form will raise many problems.
You'll never succeed in having a stable behavior
regarding this issue.

Please read my blog here about the adobe mechanism
to protect their claims:
http://pdfcomments.blogspot.de/2009/06/pdf-and-forms.html

Cheers and welcome here,
Ingo

Posted By: AndrewC
Date Posted: 09 Jul 12 at 11:14AM

Here is some more information

http://www.quickpdflibrary.com/faq/adobe-reader-extensions-usage-rights.php - http://www.quickpdflibrary.com/faq/adobe-reader-extensions-usage-rights.php

If other libraries such a Quick PDF Library could read and write data to XFA based LiveCycle forms then Adobe would lose a lot of their revenue stream. This is why they make if difficult for other PDF libraries to work with LiveCycle forms unless a license is purchased from Adobe.

Andrew.