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I am going to give this one last try before I cancel DC and get something else. I am trying to find a way to populate an acrobat form from a database query. I have been around and around on this. You would think this would be a simple, routine task. All the buttons, all the options in DC for esoteric things - not the basics, apparently.
This used to be possible, years ago, but it was completely removed for security reasons. The normal approach now is to generate the field information on a server with secure access to the database, and pass the fields back to the client in a browser - all outside the control of Acrobat or Reader.
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This used to be possible, years ago, but it was completely removed for security reasons. The normal approach now is to generate the field information on a server with secure access to the database, and pass the fields back to the client in a browser - all outside the control of Acrobat or Reader.
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Wow that just makes no sense to me. Why in the world am I paying $20 a month for basically nothing. So it is not possible to import your own data into your own Acrobat? Amazing.
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I am going to cancel.
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You can do it if you export the data from the DB to a plain-text file, but you can't establish a "live" connection to the DB any longer, as was correctly mentioned above.
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May be possible when you create a plugin for Adobe Acrobat.