Filesize increases when saved

[pcwriter]

Here's something odd I've been wrestling with and haven't yet figured out.

I've been trying out a different approach when building forms with Form Designer destined for download. Rather than have several questions on a page as with a printed form, my model only displays one question at a time as with many types of online forms.

Each question is composed of a question TextField, one or more answer TextFields (or CheckBoxes) and a "Continue" button. The "Continue" button calls the Show action (from the Button Actions dialog box) for all fields of the next question, and the Hide action for all fields of the present question.

It's simple, straightforward & works well, but... Every time I test the form, the filesize increases by 18 to 20kb. It's as though the form is saving data into itself.

These forms are to be downloaded to a website visitor's computer and possibly filled in several times. If the filesize increases every time a user fills it out, well... where will it end?

If anyone has any ideas on how to prevent or correct this, I would be grateful.:1_29:

[christina]

I let our testing team make a testing on it, and it seems that they have the same problem. Would you please send us a sample for further testing? I will post you email.

[pcwriter]

Hi Christina!

The sample is on its way to your inbox.

Hope it helps.:1_07:

[christina]

Thanks, got you email. I will forward it to the testing team for help.

[christina]

Hi pcwriter, this issue has been confirmed and forwarded to our developer team for improvement. Thanks.

Report Mantis ID:0006987

[pcwriter]

Hi Christina,

Glad to help out. Do you think the fix will be in the next release?

UPDATE: Oops! I just saw V3.0 was released yesterday. So I guess the fix will be in V3.x

[christina]

Confirmed with our testers, and was told this had been fixed in v3.x. Have you tried it? Doesn't it be fixed?

[pcwriter]

Hi Christina!

Yes! Problem solved.

However, the Form Designer functions are no longer available. I guess I need to register the license key again but, silly me, I can't remember how, or even where it is!:1_32:

Any ideas?

[christina]

If you have the lincensed key, just copy the key file 'frpkey.txt' into foxit reader exe folder.

But I am sorry to say:

Foxit Form Designer is now NOT AVAILABLE in Foxit Reader 3.0. It will be included into another product which will be released soon.

[pcwriter]

OK, I guess I'll have to reinstall V2.3 B3309 again and use that to build my form packages. Then make sure my site visitors download V3.0 to prevent the filesize increase every time they save their own work. By the way, my brain wasn't working earlier (again!): the key file was in my email. Doh!

The fun & games continue! :1_31: