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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Nov 4, 2013 1:16PM

Ryan,
It might be worth highlighting the tools that you can use as I don't find the same increase when doing that testing. Yes, it is a pain if you a looking for tags in Acrobat and there aren't there because the file is a dynamic XFA document, but it should be noted that Livecycle also produces static PDF forms so not all livecycle forms present this challenge.

I tend to use PDDOMView.exe (http://download.macromedia.com/pub/developer/acrobat/acrobat_accessibility_9.1.zip) to view the accessibility information for a PDF, whether from Acrobat or LiveCycle so I don't see any difference in the testing experience there, for me. Your mileage may vary.

If the form you are testing actually needs the dynamic features available in dynamic XFA, then there may be a reason that the forms take longer, which is that they may just be more complex than simple forms. Just as a very dynamic HTML form takes more time to test, so can a dynamic PDF form.

AWK