Baffled. Baffled and frustrated. How do you insert a graphic?
"JP" Jan 5, 2010 12:36 PMI have to say that, so far, I absolutely hate Acrobat 9 and LiveCycle. I am finding them, particularly LiveCycle (which at the moment feels to me like it should be called DeathSpiral), opaque, clunky and creating lots of what appear to be random errors. If you can't tell, I am amazingly frustrated. Worse than I have ever been with any software I have ever used. This is much worse than the worst of Macromedia, which I found to be entirely non-intuitive. I've been working on this for 3 DAYS!
Now the problem.
I am trying to create a simple online printable certificate (a form) with a background graphic (the certificate border), a user entered name field, a user entered number field, and a field that automatically fills in the current date, with an audio file attached that plays (instructions for completing the form) on load one time, without displaying the player.
I've done this before and easily with version 7. I spent nearly a year working on a series of projects that had all of these features.
Unfortunately, when we loaded version 9 we uninstalled version 7 and no one knows where the discs went.
The problem is that I don't know how to insert the auto date field in Acrobat 9. I can do it easily in LiveCycle, BUT I can't find a way to insert the background graphic in LiveCycle.
I've tried saving the file with no security of any kind and then opening it in Acrobat 9, where I can insert a background graphics, and quite mysteriously it says I "do not have sufficient permissions" to insert the background graphic, but does not define "permissions". What's up with that?
I tried making a document in Word that had the background and text laid out properly, then importing it into LiveCycle, but LiveCycle strips out the background graphic.
Thinking there might be something wrong with the graphic, I've tried several different graphics. Same result.
Copying the JavaScript LiveCycle creates into Acrobat 9 does not work.
HELP is absolutely no help. It says you can "replace" a background on the Master and implies you can add one, but does not say how. None of terms I've searched on produces anything that actually addresses my problem. The INSERT menu, where you'd expect to find a way to insert a graphic, is of no use. In fact I can't find any command anywhere in LiveCycle that makes the slightest reference to graphics.
Copy and paste doesn't seem to work. If I paste any graphic into LiveCycle it appears blocky and I get a message saying there isn't enough "room" for it (whatever that means). I assumed I was seeing some sort of low-rez version, but when I look at the doc in "preview" the graphic does not show at all.
So what I am looking for is...
- a method for inserting graphics in LiveCycle and/or
- a method for inserting an auto date field in Acrobat 9 and
- an explanation of what "permissions" are, in the context of a document without any security restrictions, and how to deal with them.
Thanks and my apologies for the rant.
JP







