Is there a way to programatically convert dynamic pdf form to static pdf form?
My scenarios is our forms are dynamic pdf forms which have growing fields and dynamically added subforms. Once the user filled in the forms, the pdfs need to be converted to static pdf forms to be further processed by a 3rd party.
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Do you mean a flattened PDF whereby the form is no longer interactive?
you have several options.
1) Print the form with a PDF printer — Produces a completely non-interactive PDF file with a very small file size
2) Use JavaScript to lock down all or specific form fields — can also be combinated with password protection and preserves the interactivity of the form for further changes
Sign in to like this contentI can't flatten the pdf as it needs to be interactive when feeding into 3rd party's application. This 3rd party basically provides the functionilty for user to correct the form and eSign.
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Both static forms and dynamic forms can be interactive. For the differences see http://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/8.2/static_dynamic_diffs.pdf.
What form characteristics or behaviour are you trying to achieve by your definition of 'static'?
That's the limitation of the 3rd party application. They only take static pdf forms.
Whereas our forms are designed with dynamic xfa (fields will flow, subforms can have multiple copies depends on user's input, and some forms are dynamically generated with a subset of subforms based on user's choice, etc. ). So, want to know if
there is any lifecycle services available to convert programatically.
If there is no way to do that and we have to convert all the templates to static pdf forms, will we loose all the functionaility we need?
