In one of our applications, we have a script dump data from a database into a well-formed XDP file, which the user can download. The XDP contains a reference to a PDF (created in LiveCycle) on the same server via the <pdf> tag. The idea is the user can dump the data, download the XDP, which will download the PDF and automatically fill in the data, and then save, print, or e-mail it.
The problem is that Adobe Reader (or Acrobat), instead automatically downloading the remote PDF form, opens the default web browser to try to download the PDF, and if you open it from the browser it does not automatically populate the form with the data dumped from the database. If I take the XDP and use a text editor to change the link in the <pdf> tag to a locally downloaded copy, the form populates fine, so the XDP is written correctly, however this is not a practical solution, as most users wouldn't know how to do that.
My question is if there is a way to automate this process, so that Adobe Reader or Acrobat downloads the PDF file and populates the data automatically, and doesn't try to route the process through the web browser.
