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With over 20 years experience in graphic arts as well as working as a preflight and prepress technician for Best Printing Online, I can answer any questions relating to graphic design and printing. This includes but is not limited to Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Quark Xpress and just about any other graphics related software.

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Currently employed by Best Printing Online, I have been working as a graphic designer and printing professional for over 20 years. My experiences range from original design work including layout, illustration and photography to prepress production and troubleshooting. I have done consulting and training for some of the smallest print shops to the largest design agencies and printers in the industry.

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Occupational Certificate in Darkroom and Printing Technologies from back when light tables and contacting frames were cool. Attended McHenry County College, Columbia College Chicago and Northern Illinois University and strive to attain new knowledge in this field wherever it may be hiding.

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Adobe Acrobat - PDF Forms - Date/Time Field

Expert: Ken Black - 10/29/2009

Question
QUESTION: Trying to set up a Date/Time Field to be automatically calculated when the user opens the form. No data appears in the Preview page, the saved document or when the form is printed?

ANSWER: Hi Karen,

What version of Acrobat are you using? Is this form created in Acrobat or LiveCycle?

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QUESTION: Using Acrobat Professional 8.0 and creating the form in LiveCycle. Original document is an excel file, converted to PDF. Does it make a difference if the original doc. is a blank/new page or a scanned document?

Answer
Hi Karen,

It should not make any difference what the original doc is. The form field and assigned values are created by LiveCycle.

While my experience with LiveCycle is limited, I can offer a few suggestions.

After you add the field for your date and time, you can change the object properties under the Field, Value, and Binding tabs of the Object palette.

For this to work your field needs to have a locale specified, in this case you want the Viewer's System Locale to be used.

In the Object palette, click on the Field tab; next, choose Viewer's System Locale from the Locale list.

In the Value tab, under Type, choose Calculated - Read Only; choose the Runtime Property - Current Date/Time, under Calculation Script.

Last, but not least, make sure the Presence, under the Field tab is set to Visible. This allows viewing and printing of the object and should be set by default but is a good place to check for error.

Thanks,

Ken Black

www.bestprintingonline.com

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