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Increase the performance of my dynamic form

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2009-04-09 09:17:01
Uashbjo
Registered: Mar 3 2009
Posts: 18
Answered

Hi,

I created a dynamic form with LiveCycle ES 8.2. The problem is that when uers open it, it takes more than 15 seconds (tested in acrobat 7, 8 and 9) to open and then it is slow to use it. They use in on their hard drive and not on the Internet.

Is there a way I could make my form much faster to open and use?

The document is only 725 ko.

I don't know if it's useful but my form contains a lot of Hide/Show in it.

Thank you so much for your help!!!

My Product Information:
LiveCycle Designer, Windows
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2009-04-09 10:39:52
#1
Dimitri
Expert
Registered: Nov 1 2005
Posts: 1389
Hi Uashbjo,

In general the more dynamic features you use in a LCD PDF the worse the performance becomes. Here's a link to an Adobe article on this subject-

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/livecycle/articles/lc_designer_perf_guidelines.pdf

Hope this helps,

Dimitri
WindJack Solutions
www.windjack.com
www.pdfscripting.com

Dimitri Munkirs
WindJack Solutions
pdfscripting.com

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2009-04-09 10:45:49
#2
lkassuba
ExpertTeam
Registered: Jun 28 2007
Posts: 3636
There are also some suggestions in point number 2 in the [url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/aucbb/viewtopic.php?id=1845]LiveCycle FAQ[/url]. There was a [url=http://blogs.adobe.com/livecycle/2009/03/post.php]bug[/url] that was fixed in 9.1 that created multiple lines of processing instructions, which may be contributing to your issue.

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.

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2009-04-09 13:25:23
#3
Uashbjo
Registered: Mar 3 2009
Posts: 18
Thank You!

I think I found the problem, which is the bug you we're talking about.

Do I have to take out all of these?

<?templateDesigner StyleID aped3?>or there are some that actually are useful?

Thank You! again

P.S. When I opened my form in Notepad, I had 1 500 000 lines! I reduced it to 7000 lines...
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2009-04-10 05:32:37
#4
lkassuba
ExpertTeam
Registered: Jun 28 2007
Posts: 3636
Glad to hear you found the culprit. The 9.1 update will remove the excess instructions but if you don't want to update you can use the stylesheet workaround suggestion in the following [url=http://forums.adobe.com/thread/341071?tstart=30]post[/url] from Paul Guerette.

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.

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2009-04-13 10:29:26
#5
suewhitehead
Registered: Jun 3 2008
Posts: 232
If you do not want to install the update (which takes care of the problem), just activate the XML tab on the View menu. Then do a FIND/REPLACE on the Edit menu to remove all of them. This is what I did until the fix came out.
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