Hi

I am using Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8.2 + Adobe Output ES Server on Linux (SUSE10) to create PDF's from input XML.

I have had some trouble getting Arial fonts which are used in my LiveCycle Designer created XDP's to be produced in the resulting PDF using the java API or the Process Flow (watched folder) in Output ES.  I have put Arial TTF fonts into both the Server Fonts and Customer Fonts folders and the Arial font still seems to be coming out as MyriadPro in the final PDF.

Is there something I am doing wrong ?

Regards
Robert.

I thought that I understood static vs dynamic forms, but what I'm seeing has me stumped.  Here's the issue:

I have a form that requires multiple instances of a subform, based on repeating nodes in XML data.  Inside each subform instance there are data fields, but I can't bind them directly to the XML because the values require some calculation based on the data passed in.  So, I have a javascript loop in the containing subform that creates a new instance of the repeating subform and sets the rawValues of the underlying data fields.  The javascript is in the Initialize event.  I'm passing the .xdp into Output for rendering.  The script is set to run on the Server.

The issue is that when I look at the resulting PDF file in Reader, I do have the correct number of subform instances displayed.  However the data fields reflect the data from the first instance, so that I might have five sections that all look the same and the data is correct for the first section.  The form will render fine in the Designer preview if I set the form preview type to Dynamic, but the behavior will replicate the Output behavior if I set the preview to Static.

What I understood is that having a static form will mean that the form will not *re-render* in Reader, but the initial form rendering in Output should create the subforms correctly.  I am getting multiple instances, they just don't reflect the correct data values.

Hello,

I'm getting the following error when trying to import an image into a form:

2010-10-04 08:56:35,717 WARN  [com.adobe.document.XMLFormService] ALC-XTG-017-936: [8392] Error importing image. Unsupported image format.

2010-10-04 08:56:35,717 WARN  [com.adobe.document.XMLFormService] ALC-XTG-029-461: [8392] XFAImageService: Image cannot be resolved for node: ImageField1.

Hi

I was looking for some direction.  We currently use Adobe Document Server 5.0 and the Altercast Web Service to pass XML to a template and for it to pass us back a pdf document.  We have been advised that Lifecycle is the way forward.  I was wondering if the Output Module would be the correct module to use for this?  Does anybody have any pointers in this direction.

Any help would be gratefully recieved.

Many Thanks

Chris

Hi all,

I wonder if it should be possible to convert a form that contains digitally signed XML into a PDF/a?

I have tried the ConvertToPDFA service in LC ES 2.5, but it does not seem to work as I expect. During the conversion I wonder why 3 things happen:

1. The PDF/a shows as a PDF/a in Reader - however in the PDFAConversionResult the "isPDFa" node is set to false.

2. In my resulting PDF/a I get all my pages twice. Meaning if my original form was 1 page I get 2 pages in my resulting PDF/a, the last page without data in the fields.

3. The resulting PDF/a does not show as containing digitally signed data - however the input Form does show up as the data being digitally signed.

Is this a bug or does any one of you have an idea of how I should approach this challenge?

Thanks in advance

Sincerely

Kim Christensen

Dafolo A/S

Denmark

Recently upgraded to LivecycleES2 and using OutputES2 component to perform the pdf to Image conversion. The application is using the new endpoints to the Livecycle ES2 deployed on Websphere application server 7.The application still has Livecycle ES API using old method toImage to perform

pdf to Tiff converstion :

tiffDoc = convertPDFClient.toImage(pdfDoc, spec);

Unfortunately the size of the resulting document when pointing to new ES2 livecycle server is only 8 bytes. Infact the image file produced is such that all image editor say "No preview available" since its size is only 1KB. Where as the size comes just fine when running against the old ES livecycle instance.

The whole code is as below :

public byte[] pdf2Tiff(byte[] pdf) throws LiveCycleException {

        log.trace("Entering pdf2Tiff");

        if (log.isTraceEnabled()) log.trace("pdf size: " + pdf.length);

        Document pdfDoc = new Document(pdf);

        Document tiffDoc = null;

        byte[] bytes = null;

        try {

            if (convertPdfClient == null) convertPdfClient = new ConvertPdfServiceClient(factory);

            ToImageOptionsSpec spec = new ToImageOptionsSpec();

            spec.setImageConvertFormat(ImageConvertFormat.TIFF);

            spec.setGrayScaleCompression(GrayScaleCompression.None);

            spec.setColorCompression(ColorCompression.None);

            spec.setRgbPolicy(RGBPolicy.Off);

            spec.setCmykPolicy(CMYKPolicy.Off);

            spec.setColorSpace(ColorSpace.Monochrome);

            spec.setResolution(imageResolution);

            spec.setMonochrome(MonochromeCompression.None);

            spec.setGrayScalePolicy(GrayScalePolicy.Off);

            tiffDoc = convertPdfClient.toImage(pdfDoc, spec);               // gives only 8 bytes of tiffDoc in ES2 compared to complete 187580 with ES

            bytes = readBytes(tiffDoc, pdf.length, imageSizeMultiplier);

            setException(null);

        } catch (Exception e) {

            setException(e);

            throw new LiveCycleException("", "", e.getMessage(), "");

        } finally {

            if (pdfDoc != null) pdfDoc.dispose();

            if (tiffDoc != null) tiffDoc.dispose();

        }

        log.trace("Exiting pdf2Tiff");

        super.recordLastActivity();

        return bytes;

    }

If anyone has any idea why this might be happening, I will appreciate the help.

HI,

Could anybody let me know how do i implement the rendering of pdf to the browser as it happens in google docs.

in google docs when we access a pdf, the first page appears very quickly and rest of the page downloads slowly. There it doesnt require to download entire pdf and then see the content of it. It downloads and visible as it downloads.

Regards

Sunil

Hi,

I need to estimate the effort based on low, medium and high complexity of templates generation through Adobe Livecycle. Suggest if there is any benchmark figures available for the same.

Please help to provide the same.

Thanks and regards,

Mayank

Hi,

does anyone have a sample lca, showing the use of Output and Matching Pattern rules?

I have a request from a customer where they have one xml-file and many xdp-files.

rgds,

Tommy

Hi All,

We want to upgrade our system to 9.0. During the performance test we have found memory Leak problem at ALS 9.0. I explain the detailed problematic issue below. Is there any body who has any suggest?

We have Adobe Livecycle ES2 9.0 SP2 installed on WAS 6.1. But also WAS on Windows Server 2008 R2. We call java web services from .Net Web service for generating PDFs.

On Java side “com/adobe/internal/pdftoolkit/services/javascript/GibsonMemoryTracki ng” class is causing Memory Leak problem at server.

Our .Net Codes. I copied below. First we generate PDF then we convert this pdf to static pdf.

First We call the GeneratePDF function.

publicstaticbool GeneratePdf(Document document, byte[] pdfTemplate)

    {

        try

        {

            //Create a FormDataIntegrationService object and set authentication values

            FormDataIntegrationService formDataIntegrationClient = newFormDataIntegrationService();

            formDataIntegrationClient.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(Settings.ALCUserName, Settings.ALCPassword);

            //Import XDP XML data into an XFA PDF document

            ALCFormDataIntegrationService.BLOB inXMLData = new ALCFormDataIntegrationService.BLOB();

            //Populate the BLOB object

            inXMLData.binaryData = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(document.XmlData);

            //Create a BLOB that represents the input PDF form

            ALCFormDataIntegrationService.BLOB inPDFForm = new ALCFormDataIntegrationService.BLOB();

            inPDFForm.binaryData = pdfTemplate;

            //Import data into the PDF form

            ALCFormDataIntegrationService.BLOB results = formDataIntegrationClient.importData(inPDFForm, inXMLData);

            document.PdfData = results.binaryData;

            Utility.Log("GeneratePdf", "Pdf generated successfully.", LogLevel.Info);

            returntrue;

        }

        catch (Exception ex)

        {

            document.ReturnCode = "22";

            document.ReturnMsg = "Exception on generating the pdf";

            Utility.Log("GeneratePdf", "Exception: " + ex.Message, LogLevel.Error);

            returnfalse;

        }

    }

Then We call the ConvertPDF function.

publicstaticbool ConvertPdf(Document document)

    {

        try

        {

            //Create a OutputServiceService object

            OutputServiceService outputClient = newOutputServiceService();

            outputClient.Credentials = new System.Net.NetworkCredential(Settings.ALCUserName, Settings.ALCPassword);

            //Create a BLOB object

            ALCOutputService.BLOB inData = new ALCOutputService.BLOB();

            //Populate the BLOB object

            inData.binaryData = document.PdfData;

            //Set rendering run-time options

            RenderOptionsSpec renderOptions = newRenderOptionsSpec();

            renderOptions.cacheEnabled = true;

            //Create a non-interactive PDF document

            ALCOutputService.BLOB results = outputClient.transformPDF(inData, TransformationFormat.PDF, PDFARevisionNumber.Revision_1, false, null, PDFAConformance.B, false);

            document.PdfData = results.binaryData;         

            Utility.Log("ConvertPdf", "Pdf converted successfully.", LogLevel.Info);

            returntrue;

        }

        catch (Exception ex)

        {

            document.ReturnCode = "22";

            document.ReturnMsg = "Exception on converting dynamic pdf to static pdf";

            Utility.Log("ConvertPdf", "Exception: " + ex.Message, LogLevel.Error);

            returnfalse;

        }

    }

Our System Configuration:

Expiry date: NeverVersion: 9.0.0.0,

GMPatch Version: SP2

Service Pack Version: unknown

We changed some configuration which is suggested by Adobe. But this change does not solve our problem.

Changed Configurations via ADMINUI

Memory Leak Problem which is viewed via wily tool:

Hello,

I am using Adobe Output Service to merge XML document stream to an XDP file using Web Services API in Java. Had to use Web services as the app I am developing is on WAS 6.0 and Adobe LiveCycle Server is at WAS 6.1. The client application is on a different server than Adobe.

My question:

While invoking the output service from the client application, can I pass the XDP location relative to the server I am invoking the web service call? I mean to ask if the XDP can be included in the EAR file of my application and passed to the output service.generatePDFOutput method to do the merge.

I got an error when I did this. However, when I placed the XDP templates on the Forms Server, the call works.I want to be able to place the XDP files on a server other than Adobe if possible as our Adobe Server is an Enterprise Server and we want to keep application specific forms, data to a minimal.

Please advice.

Thanks.

Hi,

I am trying to print a PDF form on to a shared network printer.

I  have converted this form using generatePrintedOutput to PCL format   before sending it to sendToPrinter. The process executes successfully  without any errors but nothing is getiing printed on the printer what  could be the reason for this?

I also used Verification  Sample (Output-IVS) application to verify whether the printing functions  correctly or not. I get following lines in log

Print  spec:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<printSpec>
<output>
<optionString>paDebug=1&amp;isUserXCIURI=true&amp;&amp;TransactionTim eOut=180</optionString>
<format>PostScript</format>
<copies>1</copies>
<printURI>\\NTBOM-2000\LP-SPT1</printURI>
<outputStream>single_with_return_data</outputStream>
<xciOptions>
<staple>usePrinterSetting</staple>
<pagination>simplex</pagination>
</xciOptions>
<waitForResponse>true</waitForResponse>
</output>
<input>
<validated>true</validated>
<formDesign>CoverLetter.xdp</formDesign>
<contentRoot>http://dev:8080/OutputIVS/forms</contentRoot>
<xci>http://dev:8080/OutputIVS/OutputIVS.xci</xci>
<dataFile recordIdField="@__Id"/>
</input>
</printSpec>
2010-07-02 15:42:48,503 INFO  [STDOUT]  *******************************************************
2010-07-02 15:42:48,503 ERROR [STDERR]  com.adobe.printSubmitter.PrintException: Printer \\NTBOM-2000\LP-SPT1  not found.

This printer is configured on the m/c where Livecycle server is running.

Thanks,

Vikram

Hi Experts there,

Here's the process. I am using Java API with reference to the LC online QuickStart 8.2. New to LC world.

Step 1: Prepopulate a dynamic form(PDF) which is created in LC Designer 8.2 using the LC Form ES. (Success)

Step 2: Programatically add a digital signature field into the form and sign it using the LC Digital Signature ES. (Success)

Step 3: Try to Flatten the signed PDF but got an output pdf with all the data fields empty except the signature field using the LC Output ES. (Fail)

Any suggestions? The signed PDF form is attached.

<ConferenceReg.pdf_3411072e-0ee1-44c6-9d38-60082bd8929ij_11_signed.pdf >

I did switch Step 2 and Step 3 and tested "flatten-first, then sign". It worked. However, this way, the flatten output gave me two pages instead of one - the source pdf has only one page. Among the two pages, the first page is what I wanted, but the second one is a blank form which is exactly same as the first page. Where does this blank page come from? Was there something wrong when I generated the PDF form in LC Designer? I did nothing but using the default template - Conference Registration!

Please help. The original PDF form and the flatten output file are attached.

<ConferenceReg.pdf>

<ConferenceReg_flatten.pdf>

Thanks a lot!

Wayne

Hello,

We just upgraded to ES3, and for load testing, I submitted 1000 xml files to a watch folder.  The process that picks up the files merges the data with a template and dispatches the documents to a printer.  We had this same memory issue in the past on an older version of LiveCycle, but we increased the swap space according to http://blogs.adobe.com/livecycle/2010/05/livecycle_formsivs_and_output i.html and the problem went away. 

Here's what our current swap space is:

Swap:  4200912k total,  2478116k used,  1722796k free,   932596k cached

Is there a good way to resolve this error?  Or are we supposed to bump up the swap even higher now?

Thanks,

Ryan

2012-04-02 12:07:46,821 ERROR [STDERR] Caused by: com.adobe.livecycle.formsservice.exception.RenderFormException: java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException: An unexpected exception while resolving a new connection to an Adobe Service.

2012-04-02 12:07:46,821 ERROR [STDERR]  at com.adobe.formServer.FormServer.renderForm(FormServer.java:233)

2012-04-02 12:07:46,821 ERROR [STDERR]  at com.adobe.formServer.FormServer.renderForm(FormServer.java:281)

2012-04-02 12:07:46,821 ERROR [STDERR]  at com.adobe.formServer.docservice.FormsDocService.renderForm(FormsDocSe rvice.java:558)

2012-04-02 12:07:46,821 ERROR [STDERR]  at com.adobe.printSubmitter.util.FormSubmitter.submit(FormSubmitter.java :187)

2012-04-02 12:07:46,821 ERROR [STDERR]  ... 187 more

2012-04-02 12:07:46,823 ERROR [STDERR] Caused by: com.adobe.livecycle.formsservice.exception.FormServerException: java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException: An unexpected exception while resolving a new connection to an Adobe Service.

2012-04-02 12:07:46,823 ERROR [STDERR]  at com.adobe.formServer.PA.XMLFormAgentWrapper.doPAExecute(XMLFormAgentW rapper.java:267)

2012-04-02 12:07:46,823 ERROR [STDERR]  at com.adobe.formServer.PA.XMLFormAgentWrapper.execute(XMLFormAgentWrapp er.java:203)

2012-04-02 12:07:47,661 ERROR [STDERR]  at com.adobe.formServer.Controller.doXFARender(Controller.java:809)

2012-04-02 12:07:47,661 ERROR [STDERR]  at com.adobe.formServer.Controller.doRender(Controller.java:623)

2012-04-02 12:07:47,661 ERROR [STDERR]  at com.adobe.formServer.Controller.render(Controller.java:140)

2012-04-02 12:07:47,662 ERROR [STDERR]  at com.adobe.formServer.FormServer.renderForm(FormServer.java:214)

2012-04-02 12:07:47,662 ERROR [STDERR]  ... 190 more

2012-04-02 12:07:47,664 ERROR [STDERR] Caused by: java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException: An unexpected exception while resolving a new connection to an Adobe Service.

2012-04-02 12:07:47,664 ERROR [STDERR]  at com.adobe.formServer.PA.XMLFormAgentWrapper.doPAExecute(XMLFormAgentW rapper.java:257)

2012-04-02 12:07:47,664 ERROR [STDERR]  ... 195 more

2012-04-02 12:07:47,664 ERROR [STDERR] Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

2012-04-02 12:07:47,664 ERROR [STDERR]  at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor564.invoke(Unknown Source)

2012-04-02 12:07:47,664 ERROR [STDERR]  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces sorImpl.java:25)

2012-04-02 12:07:47,664 ERROR [STDERR]  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)

2012-04-02 12:07:47,664 ERROR [STDERR]  at com.adobe.util.ConnectionFactoryReflectionWrapper.getConnection(Utili ties.java:1162)

2012-04-02 12:07:47,664 ERROR [STDERR]  at com.adobe.formServer.PA.XMLFormAgentBase.getFormAgentFactory(XMLFormA gentBase.java:67)

2012-04-02 12:07:47,664 ERROR [STDERR]  at com.adobe.formServer.PA.XMLFormAgentWrapper.doPAExecute(XMLFormAgentW rapper.java:252)

2012-04-02 12:07:47,664 ERROR [STDERR]  ... 195 more

2012-04-02 12:07:47,664 ERROR [STDERR] Caused by: java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException: Error executing process

2012-04-02 12:07:47,664 ERROR [STDERR]  at com.adobe.service.ProcessResource.startProcess(ProcessResource.java:4 86)

2012-04-02 12:07:47,664 ERROR [STDERR]  at com.adobe.service.ProcessResource.<init>(ProcessResource.java:195)

2012-04-02 12:07:47,664 ERROR [STDERR]  at com.adobe.service.ProcessFactoryManager.createConnectionResource(Proc essFactoryManager.java:64)

2012-04-02 12:07:47,664 ERROR [STDERR]  at com.adobe.service.ResourcePooler.allocateResource(ResourcePooler.java :154)

2012-04-02 12:07:47,664 ERROR [STDERR]  at com.adobe.service.ConnectionFactoryManagerPeer.getConnectionResourceF romPool(ConnectionFactoryManagerPeer.java:79)

2012-04-02 12:07:47,664 ERROR [STDERR]  at com.adobe.service.J2EEConnectionFactoryManagerPeerImpl.getConnection( J2EEConnectionFactoryManagerPeerImpl.java:103)

2012-04-02 12:07:47,664 ERROR [STDERR]  ... 201 more

2012-04-02 12:07:47,665 ERROR [STDERR] Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "chmod": java.io.IOException: error=12, Cannot allocate memory

2012-04-02 12:07:47,665 ERROR [STDERR]  at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:460)

2012-04-02 12:07:47,665 ERROR [STDERR]  at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:593)

2012-04-02 12:07:47,665 ERROR [STDERR]  at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:431)

2012-04-02 12:07:47,665 ERROR [STDERR]  at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:328)

2012-04-02 12:07:47,665 ERROR [STDERR]  at com.adobe.service.ProcessResource.startProcess(ProcessResource.java:4 75)

2012-04-02 12:07:47,665 ERROR [STDERR]  ... 206 more

2012-04-02 12:07:47,665 ERROR [STDERR] Caused by: java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: error=12, Cannot allocate memory

2012-04-02 12:07:47,665 ERROR [STDERR]  at java.lang.UNIXProcess.<init>(UNIXProcess.java:148)

2012-04-02 12:07:47,665 ERROR [STDERR]  at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:65)

2012-04-02 12:07:47,665 ERROR [STDERR]  at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:453)

2012-04-02 12:07:47,665 ERROR [STDERR]  ... 210 more