We are generating forms using renderPdfForm and assembleService(for flattening and assembling documents). It seems that the pdf's generated increases in size over time. However it seems to help restarting the server.
I've had pdf's of size 6mb going as low to 500kb after a Adobe server restart.
Yes the latest service Pack has the fix in it. You will have to open the file and save it from the patched designer to get the fix to apply to your specific docs. I have posted the style sheet but most programs that can apply style sheets cannot handle the size of these docs. So I use a local istance of java and created a batch file tha will load the file in a dom then apply the style sheet. I use a public domain dom program called saxon8.jar. I do not have the rights to distribute it so simply do a search in the web and you should find it fine. I then use this batch file to apply to style sheet to the bulked form design file. Note that it must be saved as an XDP (xml format) for this to work. Here is the batch file:
Can this bug lead to varying pdf file sizes? As I mentioned in the initial message, I've seen the same pdf file grow from about 500kb to 6MB over time. After server restart the generated pdf was back to 500 kb.
Typically the size of the PDF does not grow very much (remember that it is a repeating line thousands of times). The compresion in the PDF reduces the multiple lines to a single string so the size does not get impacted very much.
Sounds like you may have a different issue. Can you post one of those large PDFs and we can see what is it it. If you do not want to post it in this public forum send it to livecycle8@gmail.com.
Have you removed the lines manually or by a tool, I'm not sure the update will actually remove the already existing lines for you, but not sure about that.
