Text Field not shown in Adobe 6.0 and 7.0

[Former Community Member]

I created a simple pdf file with a text field in Adobe LiveCycle Designer 7.0. After I fill the text field with a third party tool in a program, the field's value dosen't appear in Adobe Professional 7.0 while appears in Adobe Professional 6.0. What is a problem? Does some settings will affect this case?



Thanks for any answer...

[Former Community Member]

Can you tell me what is that third party tool that you mentioned in your post?

[Former Community Member]

I used this product Aspose.Pdf.Form http://www.aspose.com/Products/Aspose.Pdf.Form/



What is your advice?

[Former Community Member]

When you design your form in Designer 7, did you save it as Acrobat 6 compatible static form?

You might want to save it as other type to see if the problem goes away.

[Former Community Member]

Thanks for your reply.

I have set the three types. The problem is still there.

en... It is a strange problem...

[Former Community Member]

I have another problem. It seems no place to set the font of the text field in Designer 7.0.

[Former Community Member]

Sorry, I have seen it on the top of the menu.

[Former Community Member]

Any more advice, Jimmy?

[Former Community Member]

I am not familiar with the Aspose.pdf component. I would check with Aspose.pdf tech support to see if the version of the component that you use will support xfa based forms that you created using Designer 7.

[Former Community Member]

Thanks for your help.



But what is xfa based forms ? where can get help doc about it?

[_Noah_Katz_]

xfa forms are from Adobe Designer (bundled with Acrobat 7 Professional, Windows), and XML based. They only work with 7, or 6 patched appropriately (either 6.0.2, or 6.0.3 - I forget which). AcroForms are from Acrobat 4-7, and work with all of those versions, though there are features that only work with certain versions.



Noah Katz

[Former Community Member]

Thanks for your reply.

I had another test recently.

I save a pdf as a "compatible with 6.0" type which is created by Adobe Designer 7.0. After I opened it in 6.0 and filled the text field, it worked well. But when I opened it in 7.0, all the value was lost.

Is 7.0 not well compatible with 6.0? What could I do if I created pdf with 7.0 and the users use 6.0 (you know, I can't request all the users to use new 7.0)?



Any advice will be appreciated.

[Former Community Member]

Did you have a chance to check with the Aspose.pdf tech support?

It sounds like this component only support acroform.



You can test this by trying to create an acroform using Acrobat 7 and open it in Acrobat 7 to see if the value populate.

[Former Community Member]

Thanks for your advice.

It is really that the acroform created by Acrobat 7 worked well in 6.0 and Aspose.

I think the form which is created by Acrobat 7 and Designer 7 is the same before. Now I know that I am wrong.



Thanks again for your advice.

Best regards.