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- Digital signatures in PDF forms, and Word doc forms are not supported.
- Currently PDF form creation must be done in the flow designer. Adding an additional PDF as the output of an e-form will be added to the form designer in a future release.
- Adobe XFA Forms are not supported. The tool that Adobe uses to create PDF's does not support integration with third party software. Use PDFescape to generate acroforms for mapping with Live Forms.
- Password or sensitive text fields being transferred to a PDF form will be written in plain text if they are mapped to a PDF field.
- PDF files support layers that can be turned on/off as a way of hiding and showing content dynamically. These are the underlying technology behind optional content groups. These can be manipulated programmatically as a way to dynamically build forms.
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You can only drop the "New PDF Form" below the "Default Generated Form" activity, if present. The default name will be "Generated Form N", where N is a unique number starting at 1. You can change the name of the activity and set up any precondition that your flow may require on the Properties panel. For Example, currently the only way to disable a template is to use a precondition that always evals to false and it will be skipped.
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Skipped activities do not affect PDF's generated by Live Forms. For example, controls in flow activities containing default values, that have been mapped in the pdf mapper, will show up in the PDF even if the activity is skipped due to a precondition. Use a form.load rule to set the "initial state" data dynamically instead. |
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will not allow the use of an owner or user password protected PDF acroform to be used as a template. It is the the flow designer's responsibility to provide an unprotected PDF acroform. There are programs available to "remove" an owner password from a protected PDF such as PDFescape. Simply upload the password protected PDF to PDFescape, then save and download it. The passowrd will be "removed" from the PDf and you will be able to use it as a template. . Invalid templates cannot be uploaded either. The message "Invalid PDF or password protected" will display. |
Download the Mapper
Download the Mapper by clicking on the icon. The downloaded mapper is a modified template so it will have the same name as the template that you uploaded even if you changed it.
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Open the mapper with an external PDF viewer/editor, such as Adobe Reader (version 11 or higher) or , Mac Preview or PDFescape.
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PDF.js, a PDF Viewer available for the Firefox browser, may not render the PDF properly. If you are using this as your viewer, and the PDf does not look as expected, download the PDF and view it in Adobe or Mac Preview. |
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The default width is 400px and the default height is 300px. Changes to margin, padding and border properties will have no effect but the rest of properties on the Style tab work as expected. Style properties for the Form Viewer control will be addressed in a future release.
Link Mode
In version 5.1.1. the Form Viewer control added from schema to a form that is not in a flow displays:the message: 'Form viewer control is only supported within a flow.' You will see this message in design and use mode.
Link Mode
The Form Viewer control defaults to link mode. Link mode offers the generated PDF to the user as a link for viewing/downloading/saving it. Clicking on the generated form name in use mode displays the form in a separate window/tab. The form can then be viewed or downloaded via the Save procedure for the PDF viewer you are using. There may be other methods of downloading/saving the form depending on the browser. The download link is inactive in edit mode unless you right-click on it and open the form in a new window/tab. Form Viewer controls in link mode in the designer display as shown in the image. Select the PDF to be viewed for each control from the Form dropdown.
In version 5.1.1. the Form Viewer control added from schema to a form that is not in a flow displays:the message: 'Form viewer control is only supported within a flow.' You will see this message in design and use mode.
Testing the flow
When the generation of
Testing the flow
When the generation of Pixel Perfect PDFs for your flow is completed, and you have saved the updates, click on the Test icon and run the flow and submit it. When you get to the form with the Form Viewer controls, be sure to check the generated Pixel Perfect PDFs such as the W - 4 etc.
If you are using MySql MySQL, and you see the following exception in the frevvo.log when are running/submitting a form/flow with a large Acroform , the acroform, , you may see this error:
The default value of the max_allowed_packet parameter in your MySQL server may not be large enough. Refer to this website for detailed information about the MySql configuration parameter.
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Increasing the max_allowed_packet variable setting in your MySQL Server from the default (1M) to something like 16M (16777125) fixes the issue. To fix the issue temporarily, run the following commands:
To permanently set it, choose one of the two methods listed below:
mysqld --max_allowed_packet=16M
On Mac OS, you can access the my.cnf file by typing
The location of the my.ini/my.cnf file varies by configuration.