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Nutmeg_Tech
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March 8, 2016
Question

export PDF form without LiveCycle data

  • March 8, 2016
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Hello,

I have a PDF that cannot be opened with Preview on Mac OS X, nor does the OS X QuickLook functionality work with this PDF.  When attempting to open this PDF using Preview on Mac OS X or attempting to preview it using QuickLook, this error message appears.

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Please wait...

If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper contents of the document, your PDF viewer may not be able to display this type of document.

You can upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Reader for Windows®, Mac, or Linux® by visiting http://www.adobe.com/go/reader_download.

For more assistance with Adobe Reader visit http://www.adobe.com/go/acrreader.

Windows is either a registered trademark or a trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Mac is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. Linux is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries.

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Google has lead me to believe that this message has something to do with the pdf being created in Adobe LiveCycle, which adds Adobe-specific features.

I don't need any of that Adobe LiveCycle data.  I cannot go back to the source and create the PDF from scratch.  How do I strip out the Adobe LiveCycle data and create a PDF that can be opened with Preview on Mac OS X and can also be viewed when invoking QuickLook on Mac OS X?

Thanks for reading!

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George_Johnson
Inspiring
March 8, 2016

It's not Adobe-specific really, it's XFA-specific. PDF forms can either be Acroforms (created with Acrobat) or XFA forms (created with LiveCycle Designer). They are very different formats and it might not be possible to convert from XFA to PDF (e.g., for dynamic XFA forms). If you have access to Acrobat, you can try opening it and printing to the PDF printer to convert it to a static PDF. This may not be possible if the document has security restrictions though.

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Nutmeg_TechAuthor
Participant
March 9, 2016

Thanks for responding.  I was unable to use the PDF printer to convert it to a static PDF.  I used an intermediate step of converting this XFA-specific PDF to Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), followed by converting the EPS to a static PDF.

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