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Posted by Richard Lynch on 01/20/05 20:15
marc serra wrote:
> I got a problem with PDF. I got a PDF form that i want to put on a
> server to allow users to fill it. After this, i want to collect
> information entered by users and recreate a PDF file with all of them.
> It's important that's the original PDF file and the filled one had the
> same shape.
>
> Can someone explain me how to do this ? I think the better way is to
> convert the pdf form into HTML but i don't find a software that do that
> automaticaly. Another solution could be to create the same form in HTML
> but the PDF file is 10 pages long :(
>
> I got another problem. When i will find a way to collect information of
> my form, will it be possible to fill the original PDF file with the
> collected information without created it again ?
I wrote an article in the June issue of php | architect that pretty much
described exactly how to do all this using Adobe's FDF.
http://www.phparch.com/
This on-line draft version may have enough info to get you going:
http://phpbootcamp.com/articles/fdf.htm
> I think it could be possible to do this using XML, XSL AND FDF in which
> order using them...
I dunno where you'd want to shove in the XML and XSL parts, but since
everybody seems to use XML and XSL for everything these days, no matter
how unsuitable it might be, I suppose it shouldn't be too difficult to
find some way to do it. :-)
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