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  • Hi SteveWe have a product called Avoka Transact that includes both a form design tool (Composer) and a form hosting and management server (Transaction Manager).Composer produces fully compliant XFA forms, but we think it makes the job much simpler and quicker (you can form your own opinion).We also ...

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  • HiAs Steve says, you can't use XFA PDF forms directly on mobile devices. However, there are two options you can look at:1. Adobe has recently announced a new version of LiveCycle that renders XFA forms in HTML for tablet devices. http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/mobile.htmlRegards,Howard

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  • Tab order is a huge pain, because it becomes a massive maintenance issue, and can become a huge area for testing and errors.Our approach has become to NEVER explicitly specify tab order, but always let Reader just "get it right automatically" by creating the fields in the right order in the first pl...

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  • Hi.Like Niall says, it's probably possible, but like him, I would argue the wisdom of attempting this. Not only could it be very sluggish, but you also could get yourself into a nasty situation.For example, what if the user selected A in the first dropdown, B in the second, and C in the third - and ...

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  • You probably need to use Acrobat rather than Reader. You can't call web services from Reader unless you first "reader extend" the form.

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  • HiI can't give you a way to view XFA forms on an iPad. But I can give you a way to build a form that will work either as a PDF/XFA form, or as an iPad form (using HTML).Check out these links for more details.http://www.avoka.com/blog/2012/02/style/http://www.avoka.com/content/avoka/en/products/sff3/...

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  • This may not solve your immediate needs, but if you need to build more sophisticated forms that do work on iPad and Desktop versions of Reader, we do have a solution, called Avoka SmartForm Composer.You can find out more by clicking the links below.http://www.avoka.com/blog/http://www.avoka.com/blog...

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  • This may not solve your immediate needs, but if you need to build more sophisticated forms that do work on iPad and Desktop versions of Reader, we do have a solution, called Avoka SmartForm Composer.You can find out more by clicking the links below.http://www.avoka.com/blog/http://www.avoka.com/blog...

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  • HiThis doesn't solve your immediate problem, but we do have a tool that allows you to build forms and output them in both PDF(XFA), or HTML. We support several flavours of HTML, including desktop style and tablet style. This allows you to build your forms once, and have them work both within Reader ...

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  • You can check a checkbox on the XDP submit format that says "Include PDF". (I can't remember the exact wording, but it's something like that.)This will cause the entire PDF file to be base64 encoded, and embedded into the XDP XML file.You should then be able to extract it from the XML, decode it, an...

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