RE: [PHP] FDF quit work for Acrobat 6

I don't see any substantial differences between your snippet and the one
we're using. (In fact, the only real difference in output is that I've
got an additional \n following the "Root 1 0 R".) Our system has
continued working with Acrobat 6, although we've noticed the newer
reader has a tendency to cache old FDF's rather than using the fresh
one.

Is that what you're seeing as well, or do you get some sort of error
message?

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Mark Roedel
Web Programmer / Analyst
LeTourneau University
Longview, Texas USA


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Wood [mailto:eric@interplas.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 12:14 PM
To: php-general@lists.php.net
Subject: [php] FDF quit work for Acrobat 6


Launching a PDF form from PHP is easy (got the code below from php.net).
Anyway this method works with Acrobat 5 readers and not Acrobat 6. Does
anyone know why?
thanks,
-eric wood

<<<<<<<<<snip>>>>>>>>
$fdfdata = "%FDF-1.2\n%~B~D~\~T\n";
$fdfdata .= "1 0 obj \n<< /FDF ";
$fdfdata .= "<< /Fields [\n";
foreach($values as $key=>$val)
{
$fdfdata.="<< /V ($val)/T ($key) >> ";
}
$fdfdata .= "]\n";
$fdfdata .= "/F (http://www.pdfs.com/Invoice.pdf)>>";
$fdfdata .= ">>\nendobj\ntrailer\n<<\n/Root 1 0 R\n>>\n";
$fdfdata .= "%%EOF";

header ("Content-Type: application/vnd.fdf");
print $fdfdata;
<<<<<<<<<snap>>>>>>>>

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Roedel, Mark wrote:
> I don't see any substantial differences between your snippet and the
> one we're using. (In fact, the only real difference in output is
> that I've got an additional \n following the "Root 1 0 R".) Our
> system has continued working with Acrobat 6, although we've noticed
> the newer reader has a tendency to cache old FDF's rather than using
> the fresh one.
>
> Is that what you're seeing as well, or do you get some sort of error
> message?

I've seen some variations of the with newlines scattered here and there
which should matter too much. I'm using a javasript popup window (child
window) to run the script. There may be an issue with that because under
5.0.5, the popup window goes away and a PDF window appears.. With 6.0 the
child window doesn't go away and the PDF window doesn't appear. The child
window just stay blank.

I'm going to try and not launch a child window and see if that curses the
problem.
-Eric Wood