i am new to this forum. 

 

You can find a pb-sample with qp here:

http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pbforums/showthread.php?p=311765 - http://www.powerbasic.com/support/pbforums/showthread.php?p=311765

Here in the sample section you'll find vb6-code as well.

With a real viewer you shouldn't expect big compatibility problems.

Perhaps advanced adobe-functionalities you'll missing.

If you want to modify an adobe livecycle form with an external third party product then the problems will raise and raise but only for a viewer you can use QuickPDF.

It's not very difficult... read the file into a stream... render stream to image... put the image on a picture-component...

 

Cheers, welcome here and

Merry Christmas for you and your family

 

and merry xmas to you

 

Please read my blog at:

http://pdfcomments.blogspot.com/2009/06/pdf-and-forms.html - http://pdfcomments.blogspot.com/2009/06/pdf-and-forms.html

Sorry... but i can only say f...k you adobe and f...k you livecycle.

Good products but very expensive and adobe had done a lot to

be sure that the customers have to buy adobe products .-(

Do some modifications on forms made by newer adobe products

and it will be impossible to work on these forms with adobe reader

or other adobe products anymore.

This has nothing to do with QuickPDF ... it's the same with any other

external third party tools.

 

Cheers, Ingo

 

hope you had a merry xmas

this restriction you mentioned i tried out and as usual Adobe is trying to make it all too difficult for everyone

however this will not be a problem for me as my custom viewer will be in my application so it will be used as the main pdf viewer and no need to use adobe free reader

i hope you can answer my question - can i by using the quickpdf library create a reader like foxit that i can edit/enter the formfields or is it just a viewer without any editing functions

cheers

joe

 

The QuickPDF Library is one of the most complete libraries on PDF you'll find.  It has dozens of functions for creating, filling, editing, flattening, etc., form fields.  See this link:

 

http://www.quickpdflibrary.com/help/quickpdf/FormFields.php - http://www.quickpdflibrary.com/help/quickpdf/FormFields.php

 

For Javascript see this link:

 

http://www.quickpdflibrary.com/help/quickpdf/JavaScript.php - http://www.quickpdflibrary.com/help/quickpdf/JavaScript.php

 

What Ingo was talking about are PDF's created with LiveCycle advanced features.  Live Cycle is a proprietary format owned exclusively by Adobe.  No one... not FoxIt, Nitro, or QuickPDF can edit or use the Live Cycle features.  Adobe owns it and is not sharing with anyone.

 

I hope this better answers your questions.

 

Tom

thanks for the reply

are you saying that a editable pdf form created with livecycle cannot be opened or process ie. filed by quickpdf or any other third party product.

do you have a viewer that was created with quickpdf that i can try. i tried to download the powerbasic one that ingo sent me the link to but i was not able to download it

many thanks

 

You can open/view PDF's with livecycle features... you just can't use the features or edit the document.  If you attempt to edit a Livecycle PDF form field it won't work.  If you attempt to append a page to a Livecycle PDF the Livecycle features will no longer work.  You'll get all kinds of warning messages in Adobe Acrobat & Reader.

 

And Yes... NO other 3rd party developer can access or process Livecycle features.  It is Adobes attempt to recapture market share they've lost to others over the years.

 

I think you'll find the majority of the PDF world still uses the Acroforms or XFA forms format which is supported in QuickPDF Library.

 

If you must process or create PDF's with Livecycle features then you are stuck with Adobe Products only.

 

Regarding a PDF Viewer, what language are you using.

 

Tom

all makes clear now

i will take the livecylce form and convert to acroform. they dont use special feature in those forms. being government department they just want to use the latest gizmos without thinking about the issue

any chance of a viewer created with quickpdf lib that i can try out

cheers and merry xmas and new year to you

joe

had not read the last line

c++ or c# either

prefer c++ but my other programmer can do c#

joe

 

I have not created a stand-alone viewer per se'... and I've used different types of viewers depending upon the project.  All these are in huge projects so it would not be a trivial task to send you something.

 

I've only used QuickPDF for simple page preview.  I've also used the GdPicture component for PDF viewing... it is a higher level viewing tool, but costs money since it's a commercial tool.  Also have used AcroPDF.dll  provided by Adobe, embedded in some projects.  That one requires the end-user has Adobe Reader installed which is not usually an issue.

 

To view PDF's with QuickPDF you would need to render the PDF content to an image object and display the image.  If you want to create a full blown viewer with all the bells and whistles, (rotate, zoom, paging, scrolling, etc) you're probably better off with a higher level language tool like GDPicture Viewer or the free AcroPDF.dll from Adobe.

 

Tom