Use explicit data binding on the form

The Output service merges the form data with the form design before rendering the form. If the form uses a data connection to retrieve the form data, you should explicitly bind the form fields and subforms to data items explicitly. Explicit data binding causes the Output service to immediately match data nodes with form fields. If you use Normal binding, the Output service follows a set of rules to determine data node and form field associations. Normal binding requires more processing time than explicit binding. To learn how to bind data explicitly, see To bind a node to an existing field in Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES Help.

Note: When a form field is not bound to an item in the data source, set the Default Binding property of the field to None so that the Output service doesn’t attempt to find an associated data node. See To remove a binding.

Embed fonts only when necessary

Embedding fonts in PDF forms increases the file size, and so, increases the time required to process the form. You do not need to embed fonts if the fonts reside on the target printer that the Output service sends the form to. When possible, use fonts that reside on the target printer in your form designs so that you don’t have to embed them.

If you need to embed fonts, avoid using OpenType fonts when the target printer uses PCL as the print stream. PCL printers rasterize OpenType fonts, resulting in large print files and longer print times.

Use Incremental Loading

Merging very large amounts of data with a form design can cause the LiveCycle ES server to run out of memory. If you are using multi-record data sets, you can configure the Output service to load and merge one record of data at a time. This incremental (lazy) loading of data avoids running out of memory because only one record is stored in memory at one time.

Both the generatePDFOutput and generatePrintedOutput operations can perform incremental loading. On the process diagram, you configure the Batch properties (in the PDF Output Options property group) of either operation to define the data items that comprise a record of data. You can use the Record Name property or the Record Level property to define the record. (See generatePDFOutput and generatePrintedOutput in LiveCycle Workbench ES Help. On both of those pages, click the Input heading to see the information.)

To enable incremental loading, you also need to configure the form to enable incremental loading. Form designs that include the <xfa:datasets> element prevent the Output service from performing incremental loading. You need to remove the datasets element and all of its child elements from the form design. Use the XML Source view in Designer to remove the datasets element. For more information about the datasets element, and for more form design tips for the Output service, see Designing Forms for LiveCycle Output ES.

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We have the privilege of being a co-host of Yahoo's "TechTicker" financial show. So that makes this an employee-led turnaround plan. To execute the plan, we're going to need the support of many other Yahoo employees, including Jerry Yang, David Filo, and the Board, so we're just going to call this a management buyout. Cool?

We've structured our proposal to be as simple and easy as possible: No need for shareholder votes. No need to raise billions of dollars of capital (who has time for that?). No need for interminable, angst-ridden negotiations. We're also making the proposal completely transparent, so our fellow Yahoos and shareholders know what's coming.

Here's the plan:

• Yahoo will acquire our parent company, Silicon Alley Media, for stock. We already own some YHOO, and we're willing to put more money where our mouth is: Specifically, we're willing to bet our entire company on our YHOO turnaround plan.
  
• Yahoo will appoint us as acting CEO. No worries: We will not become yet another fat CEO pig at the trough. In fact, we're so excited about this opportunity that we'll do it for Jerry's salary: $1 a year (okay, maybe we could add some zeroes, to preserve our marriage. But not six. Or, god forbid, eight). We also have no ambition to hold this post indefinitely. Several folks in the business world are more qualified to run a global Fortune 500 company than we are, and when the time is right, we will gladly hand the reins to one of them. Unlike many incoming Yahoo CEO candidates, however, we know what Yahoo needs right now, and there's no sense wasting time CEO-hunting when we can start the process today.
  
• We will immediately resize the company, cutting approximately one-quarter to one-third of the cost base. Even now, with its bloated cost structure, Yahoo is still making money. Our cuts will ensure that Yahoo is positioned to survive a major online ad downturn and still have plenty of cash flow to reinvest in the business. One big reduction instead of several small ones will also ensure that Yahoo doesn't go down the road it is heading down now, which is the demoralizing death by a thousand cuts.
• We will do a search deal with Microsoft. Yahoo has lost the search game, and it is senseless for the company to throw more good money after bad. Yahoo will continue to maintain a significant if declining share of search queries for the next few years, but these can be monetized better with economies of scale, and the company can avoid mindless and expensive duplication of effort. Microsoft is great at engineering and desperately wants to show Google who's boss. We'll sell Yahoo's search technology to Microsoft and do a multi-year revenue deal with them. And when it comes up for renewal, we will play Microsoft and Google off one another.
• We'll step up Yahoo's focus on content aggregation. Algorithms cannot create the best user experience for every application. Yahoo highest and best opportunity is to do what Tim Koogle used to talk about in the 1990s and Jerry has been suggesting over the past year: Become the first stop for anyone looking for an intelligent, organized view of the world. The company has made great strides in this effort over the past 14 years, but it has gotten distracted of late. We'll fix that.
• We'll increase Yahoo's production of lightweight, high-velocity online content, through programs like TechTicker, blogs, fantasy sports leagues, etc. With a distribution platform that reaches 500 million global users a month, Yahoo can make a killing on low-cost content production. We will not turn Yahoo into the New York Times (which is a dying print business.) Instead, we will hire a few more folks from the New York Times and other excellent content-production companies (people who get the Internet). These folks will help edit, curate, and organize all the great content that's already out there and produce some good original stuff. (But not TV shows or magazine articles. TechTicker works because it takes advantage of what the Internet can do better than other media, not because it tries to clone CNBC or a newspaper).
  
• We will buy or build small consumer subscription businesses that produce content that people will pay for...and then we will plug them into Yahoo's massive global distribution engine. In several years, we will build subscriptions into a major contributor to revenue, not the afterthought they are today.
• We will fix Yahoo's communications platform, in part by buying and integrating AOL (and, if we can help Steve Ballmer see the light, MSN). As long-term Yahoo Mail users, we are appalled that Yahoo has fallen behind in this area. We don't want to switch to Gmail, but if nothing changes, we may have to. Once we've integrated AIM and the AOL mail user base, we will once again have a dominant share of online communications. We'll probably buy Skype, too, just to round out the package.
  
• Most importantly, we will finally revolutionize online display advertising, which hasn't innovated since 1995. We can't tell you how tired we are of hearing advertisers complain that their display ads aren't "performing" because people aren't clicking on them. The same advertisers still line up around the block to buy unclickable ads in newspapers that get tossed on the back stoop without even being glanced at. It is time for the online ad industry to start developing better BRAND and STORYTELLING solutions. These ads can be big. They can be beautiful. They can be fun. They DO NOT need to be clicked on. If we do this intelligently, users should even come to value and/or enjoy them. No company is in a better position to lead this online ad revolution than Yahoo, and we can't wait to drive this initiative forward.

Sound good? We think so. We're not guaranteeing much of a turnaround in the stock price until the global economy recovers, but we're going to position the company to coin money when it does. We're going to stop Yahoo from trying to boil the ocean and compete in businesses it has already lost (search engineering). We're going to take advantage of what Yahoo does better than anyone: content organization and display advertising. We're going to inspire what used to be one of the industry's most passionate and competitive teams.

Despite its demolishied stock price and demoralized staff, Yahoo remains a one-of-a-kind global media platform. With the right turnaround plan, we think the company's best days (and possibly even best stock prices) are ahead of it. We would be honored and privileged to lead this revolution from within!

Lingerie connoisseurs will be happy to know that CBS has launched a multi-media, multi-platform Victoria’s Secret assault on all senses. That’s right: no longer will you have to search through the Internet’s wastelands to get your Victoria’s Secret fix; it’s all there on the official website and on your mobile.

Social Features

The new website will feature behind the scenes videos, interviews with models, photo galleries, model bios, and other original content. The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show will be broadcast on December 3, and if you’re the chatting type, check out www.cbs.com/socialviewing during the show, as you’ll be able to chat with other viewers and discuss the show there.

If you’re unable to stay at home during that time, you’ll be able to follow a live simulcast at the time of the show on your mobile. CBS Mobile and MediaFLO have set up a 24/7 dedicated channel on FLO TV, the service that enables you to see live TV on your mobile.

Embracing New Media

You got to hand it to CBS, they’re really embracing (or trying to embrace) new media. They’ve bought Last.FM, they’ve set up a YouTube channel, and now they’re bringing an utterly non-geeky event to mobile phones everywhere. I don’t see too many people actually following a Victoria’s Secret even on their mobile, but that’s the beauty of new media: it’s there for the taking, whether you like it or not.

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