Problem with image....

[xyber116]

Hello, I know absolutly nothing about LiveCycyle but I have a coworker who makes fillable PDFs for our department. She would like to have a custom border that fits within our branding.

I made a border in Illustrator and exported it as an EPS. It imports into LiveCycle but the corners within the image look like they are pixelated.

Am I making it in the wrong program? Is there a better file format I should try? Should I try to make it in LiveCycle?

Any help is appreciated.

[radzmar]

Hi,

Designer renders everything with 72dpi so it always looks poor.

But you can create such borders also in Designers border palette.

[xyber116]

But that's only around an object.

The coworker is wanting a border around the entire document. Two corners are rounded while the other two are straight corners.

[jasotastic81]

Your entire page can be the "object." If you select the page under the hierarchy tab, you can select a border around the entire form. It'll stop wherever you put your margin.

[radzmar · Accepted solution]

Well,

this is also possible even if the UI of Designer doesn't offer a way to do this.

Here's a short explaination.

1. Create a rectangle on the master page.

2. Set the border thickness and corner style and radius in the object palette.

3. Switch into the XML source > You'll see the XML structure of the rectangle.

<draw name="Rectangle" y="3.175mm" x="3.175mm" w="203.2mm" h="288.925mm">
               <value>
                  <rectangle>
                     <edge thickness="1.25mm"/>
                     <corner radius="3mm" thickness="1.25mm" join="round"/>
                  </rectangle>
               </value>
            </draw>

4. Now add 3 more corner elements and modify them. A rectangle has 4 of them and Designer only simplyfies the xml source, if all 4 are the same.

The corner order is clockwise from top left > top right > bottom right > bottom left.

To make a square corner just remove every attribute but the thickness.

<draw name="Rectangle" y="3.175mm" x="3.175mm" w="203.2mm" h="288.925mm">
               <value>
                  <rectangle>
                     <edge thickness="1.25mm"/>
                     <corner thickness="1.25mm" join="round" radius="3mm"/>
                     <corner thickness="1.25mm"/>
                     <corner thickness="1.25mm"/>
                     <corner thickness="1.25mm" join="round" radius="3mm"/>
                  </rectangle>
               </value>
            </draw>

5. In the preview it should look this way now.

[xyber116]

That's exactly what I'm looking for. Awesome! Thanks.