Archive: November 2008

3 posts

Hightlighted borders in LiveCycle Designer

by kai on 24/11/2008

I came across a slightly weird issue the other day when building forms in LiveCycle Designer. LC forms offer the nice and simple feature of being able to create form elements that render highlighted in Reader or Acrobat Pro when mandatory. For whatever reason I had a few form elements in which the form element itself rendered highlighted but also the larger box comprising the element's…

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Setting up preview for texlipse on OSX

by kai on 15/11/2008

And now for something completely different. When I'm doing writing, I usually try to use LaTeX whenever possible. If you have no idea what I'm talking about - have a look at the Wikipedia entry for LaTeX to get an overview. The 30,000 feet picture is that it's a way to produce the most beautiful electronic typesetting ever know to mankind. Anyway - Stefan and I are embarking to write a fairly…

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CF 8.0.1: Deleting a file after attaching it to an email

by kai on 13/11/2008

There's a tiny, little new feature in CF 8 Updater 1 that I bet not many people even know about - I didn't until yesterday. It came up during a discussion on cfaussie about attaching files to outgoing emails just the other day and it basically solves the problem of deleting a file after it having been sent as an email attachment. Just add a remove="true" attribute to your CFMAILPARAM tag used to…

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