Set up output trays for LC Output
Long time back I have posted a blog on how to select paper from various input trays of the printer while printing an XFA form using LC Output. This post is to describe how to specify an output bin/tray...
View ArticleDocument Printing Using Adobe LiveCycle Output
Adobe LiveCycle Output generates printer ready document in various formats like ps, pcl etc from a form design (xdp) or pdf. The form design here refers to the combination of a template and the data...
View ArticleSimplifying the Input tray set-up
We have observed and also received feedbacks from the users (whoever dared to do it) that setting up input trays has been quite a complex task. After designing the form, one needs to add the medium...
View ArticleCreate Bookmarks in XFA Forms
There is a growing demand from our customers to extend the bookmark capability of pdf documents to XFA also. In LiveCycle Server ES3, we are introducing the support for authoring bookmarks in XFA...
View ArticleSupport for unicode characters on Zebra Labels
In ES2, Livecycle introduced support for arbitrary unicode characters in Zebra Labels. Prior to this only latin-I charset was supported. Though there was support for Asian encoding like GBK(Simplified...
View ArticleAdobe LiveCycle Central Migration Bridge
Adobe Output Central is a very old product with substantial customer base. Its design was basically watch folder based and it uses very naive string matching to run the customer workflows. The workflow...
View ArticleRFID Label printing
RFID: Radio frequency identification A method of identifying unique items using radio waves. Typically, a reader communicates with a tag, which holds digital information in a microchip. But there are...
View ArticleMerging image data into a XFA template
There are many cases when a user may need to specify the image contents via a data file. Let’s take a simple hypothetical example. Say you are a company that specializes in printing purchase order...
View ArticleAll about embedding font in the document
Some designers wish to include only a few specific fonts in a PDF to ensure all possible end-users have access to those fonts, especially if the fonts are uncommon. Some other designers wish to embed...
View ArticleHTML Forms Cache config
Caching in HTML Forms or any solution for that matter, plays key role in the performance. On the other hand, cache takes finite space to store intermediate artifacts that means you trade memory for...
View ArticleLiveCycle Mobile Forms
One of the many new offerings in LiveCycle ES4 is Mobile Forms that is ability to display and fill forms on mobile devices like iPad and other tablets. Mobile forms uses the already stable and...
View ArticleLiveCycle Mobile Forms – II
This is second post in my previous series of LiveCycle Forms. In this post, I will introduce another component called Form Manager that ease out all the pains of forms deployment on the production...
View ArticleMobile forms Vs Pdf forms
Mobile forms component enables XFA forms on mobile devices. The same XFA form that can be used for generating pdf, can be used to generate html form as well. The html version should behave almost...
View ArticleScribble your forms
With new Mobile Forms, it is much easier to customize the forms than ever. In this post, I will cover one such improvisation that Mobile Form provides out of the box. Mobile Form extends image field to...
View ArticleAccessible Mobile form
An accessible form is one that a wide range of people can use, including those who may have disabilities that affect how they are able to interact with the form on the computer screen. For example, the...
View ArticleMobile Forms: LiveCycle Designer way
You want to quickly test your designed form on how it would look like as Mobile Form, you can do it right from the livecycle designer without any other application. You first need to point your...
View ArticleMobile Form data submission
Mobile Form is a form after all, a way to capture user data at the end of the day. Once you got the data from users, you want to feed that data for further business processing. If you see my first...
View ArticleMobile Form profile
Mobile Form enables LiveCycle XFA forms on mobile devices. It does it by rendering XFA Form to Html5 document. As per Sling website, Apache Sling is a web framework that uses a Java Content Repository,...
View ArticleDecoding Mobile Form Html
Mobile Form generates html snippet from XDP template designed from LiveCycle Designer. In this post, we will decode the internal structure of the generated html snippet. Once you are familiar with the...
View ArticleHide template reference
In this post I will describe how one can you pass template reference without using request parameter. The default profile of Mobile Form takes all the parameters like template reference, data reference...
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