Hi, I'm lost in the sea of Adobe products. My need is this: automatically generate (pre-filled) fillable pdf to be used on IOS mobiles.
Now, we can forget the "to be used on mobile IOS devices" and focus only on the first part of the sentence...
I've tried Acrobat DC only to find that it could only generate pdf interactively, that wasn't enought for me, I need batch processing.
So I was in a support chat with Adobe representative and he told me that LiveCycle Designer was the right product.
I bought it instantly, and followed a fast tutorial... now I can create static fillable pdfs, in XFA format (so there could be problem on the mobile side, but leave that away for now), based on xmls. Ok but... how can I create the batch process that I need, using only Designer?
The basic goal could be this: I create a template static fillable pdf with xml schema data binding. I regenerate dinamically this xml from another database and use the binding to fill some pre-fill data. Then send the merged pdf to the final user to complete the form filling. I've tried to use the script "xfa.host.importData("test.xml")" on pdf loading without success. Even the button under "File -> Distribute form... " is greyed out... in Designer, so I started to have some doubts and I've googled a little, to find out that LiveCycle ES4 is a suite of programs... Designer is only one of them... Ok, so what else do I need to arrive to my final solution? Which software part does the merge between the xml and xfa to produce my pdf in batch?
Adobe Forms? So must I buy another piece of software or ask a refund? Do you agree that with only the Designer its impossible to achieve my goal?
Thanks...