Jon Udell posts a preview of Adobe’s new Designer software which he describes as “InfoPath for PDF”. Looks to be an interesting piece of software and we all know everyone loves to open PDFs (*snicker*).

Some constraints, such as field lengths, are handled automatically. But when I wrote a regular-expression restriction into the schema, Designer’s preview didn’t complain when I entered text that didn’t match the pattern. In Acrobat, I was able to save an invalid XML instance. Bottom line: if you want real schema validation, you’ll have to do it yourself in the back-end process that receives the data.

Do it myself? There goes the productivity.

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