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paultoronto
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January 13, 2016
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Why can't my Mac Acrobat reader process an html response back to a PDF form seated on my PC with HTML as the Export Format?

  • January 13, 2016
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I created a PDF form on my PC using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC, with the Submit button coded to send the form data as HTML to a PHP file which returns an HTML response. No problem on receiving the response on my PC from Acrobat Reader. But on the Mac, Acrobat Reader X returns an error "Cannot process content of type text/html".

How can this be remedied, without changing the export format?

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Test Screen Name
Legend
January 14, 2016

It has always been stated that Reader cannot process a response type of HTML, and you should send a response in PDF or FDF format. You may have found an undocumented loophole, but best to go with the recommendation.

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paultorontoAuthor
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January 14, 2016

@Test Screen Name,

I should have clarified that when I submit the PDF from Acrobat Reader X on my PC, I do not get an error. How is the FDF response coded in the PHP file on the server? I did try using just a header alone:

HttpResponse::setContentType ( "application/vnd.fdf" );

And still got the same error on my Mac Reader, even though I had removed all other code from the PHP script.

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Test Screen Name
Legend
January 14, 2016

I don't think an empty FDF is allowed. You can have a trivial one of two lines.

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Anonymous
January 14, 2016

Hi ,

What Mac and windows version are you using?

Also if you replicate the issue with Acrobat Reader DC with Mac,what results do you see?

Regards

Sukrit Dhingra

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paultorontoAuthor
Participant
January 14, 2016

On windows I am using Acrobat Pro DC version 2105.009.20079. On the Mac I am using Acrobat Reader 10.1.14.

When I submit the PDF on the Mac using Acrobat 10 Pro, everything functions as it should, and the message from my PHP script on the server is returned without error.

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