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    Girban Andrei
    Participant

    Hi, I have two problems:
    1. sending the form without the plugin takes about 5 seconds, but with the plugin even a minute which is an enormous time. How to do it faster?
    2. In pdf some characters are not shown (especially these characters) (ă, î, â, ș, ț) they are in Romanian.
    But in the entries in the control panel they appear correctly.

    • This topic was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by Girban Andrei.
    #37579 Reply
    admin
    Keymaster

    1. The speed of the merge depends on several factors. Here are some options to reduce the time.
    – Reduce the size of the PDF. (Optimize the PDF with Abobe Acrobat, use shrink.pdf, limit the number of fonts in the PDF)
    – Suggested Option: change the Field Map Layout to NOT send the PDF attachment and place the PRO2PDF shortcode in the Email Notification to allow users to download the PDF from the email, on-demand.

    2. Use a font for the PDF form fields that is compatible with Romanian characters. (Browse the Font Squirrel fonts tagged as Romanian)

    We are also willing to login to your installation in order to provide specific suggestions based on your use case. Complete this form to provide access credentials.

    We remain at your service.

    #37632 Reply
    Jörg Spieler
    Guest

    Hi, i’ve got the same problem with german characters and the PDF has got (of cause) a font with all characters. If i open the source-pdf i can insert öäü …

    #37635 Reply
    Jörg Spieler
    Guest

    Yes, even if you’ve got a font with german characters it seems that there are differences. Courier doesn’t work but Arial.

    #37686 Reply
    Girban Andrei
    Participant

    OK, how do i change the font ?

    #37700 Reply
    admin
    Keymaster

    Edit the original PDF Form with your choice of Adobe Acrobat Form compatible apps, such as Acrobat or pdfescape.com, and change the font for each PDF field.

    Change PDF Form Field Font

    We remain at your service.

    #37791 Reply
    Girban Andrei
    Participant

    Hey, I came back with another question, I preferred to replay this topic than to do another one.

    1.I want to add the shortcode in the mail but in the mail I want to add a button, how do I do that?

    2. Will the button that will come in each email be corresponding to each entry in the correct form?

    3. I added to formidable the protection of the files that are attached to the form, after this in pdf the picture from the form is no longer added, to the users I have the administrator and the user that I want to be able to see. How do we solve this?

    #37792 Reply
    admin
    Keymaster

    1.
    A “button” (image) would require sending the email with code for a “class”, then use the “class” shortcode parameter. class ="my_button" This method may fail depending on the user’s email configuration.

    We suggest using the PRO2PDF shortcode to create a clickable link, without the class parameter.

    2.
    Change the shortcode’s dataset parameter to dataset=[id]

    3.
    We do not understand your issue.
    Re: “I added to formidable the protection of the files that are attached to the form”
    ->How did you “add protection of the files”?
    Re: “in pdf the picture from the form is no longer added”
    ->Are you referring to the PREVIEW of the PDF form field on the plugin’s Field Map Layout screen? If so, then remove the protection until the mapping is complete, then reapply the protection to the file.
    Re: “to the users I have the administrator and the user that I want to be able to see”
    ->We do not understand this part of the question.

    We remain at your service.

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