So, this might be a crazy idea, so bear with me. [warning: hackish] Using OpenOffice.org Writer, one can easily make simple pdf forms (since Writer does XForms, and can export to PDF, and embed the form using FDF). I'd like to make a text entry field with this property: if the field overflows, put the overflow on an additional pa...
Hi, I need to build a PDF based on FDF. I saw that Adobe has the FDF toolkit but saw others using ITextSharp. I couldn't find anything on Adobe's toolkit and ASP.NET but saw examples on ITextSharp. I wanted to know which I should use and if it is Adobe, does anyone have an example. Thank you. ...
I'm looking for help with using iframe with a FDF. It also has to display in IE because we use MS CRM. The PDF that the FDF is referencing is encrypted so I can't do any server side merging (I don't think). I've looked at the FDF-Toolkit but it's little over kill for just displaying, also I have heard that it doesn't always work. Thank...
When I populate acrobat form fields by importing an FDF file into NitroPDF, things look fine. When I type data into the form fields manually in Acrobat 8, things look fine. When I use pdftk (on Windows XP or 2K), the tops of the characters in each form field are chopped off. Is there a parameter I'm missing somewhere? There aren't th...
i have a w-2 form and other pdf documents and using adobe acrobat pro i have created fields with field names using the adobe application. how do i populate those fields? i have done this a few years ago where the php would generate the fdf file then load the pdf file and populate it but i completly forgot how i did it. any help would be ...
Is it possible to merge FDF data with a PDF file using PHP alone? Or is there no option but to use a 3rd party command line tool to achieve this? If that is the case can someone point me in the direction of one? I am currently outputting the FDF file to the browser in the hope that it will redirect the user to the filled in PDF but fo...
How popular is Adobe's XFDF format? An application that I support at work is using XFDF to populate data in pdf documents. I saw a bunch of xml formats here. Shall I consider switching to some of the newer xml formats mentioned? Do you know if XFDF format is going to be supported by Adobe in long-term? Thanks. ...
I was trying to create a pdf from an FDF file. I have created the FDF file succesfully. But when i try to convert it into pdf i get some errors. Below is the part of my code. the test.pdf file open in a download box and when i try to open it gives error "couldn't open test.pdf because it is either not supported file type or has been dam...
I use fdf to fill online pdf form. Now I want to fill the same pdf form multiple times ( entries from a database) for multiple users and save this pdf document with all the entries ( same form multiple times for multiple users). My user wants to fill this form for all the users from a table and save this pdf document for future reference...
I'm trying to figure out a situation where when reaching a web page that is supposed to pull some data from database and push that to the user. Behavior in IE: Instead of serving up the page, the user is presented with a dialog asking the user if they want to open, save or cancel. Clicking "open" and the dialog disappears for a second...
I'm populating PDF's via FDF (& php) and for the most part it works fine however some users are getting either a "Acrobat cannot open "Acrxyz.tmp" (or a "Reader cannot open "xyz.tmp", in some cases). I've found info about possible causes surrounding: apache "MOD-Deflate", IE Cache and Volatile memory & "fdf_close" among other things.. ...
First, I have researched this on SO and Google already. In fact, based on this, I'm pretty skeptical that what I need exists. I'm almost at the point where I might give up the next 6 months of my life to write something from scratch, since it seems obvious that everyone wants a server-side form filler native to PHP. Okay, sorry for the ...
I'm using FDF to populate a PDF template. On my PDF template, I have a checkbox and radio field called c1 and r1 respectively. What's the syntax I should use in my FDF file to check or select the c1 and r1 field? I tried things like <</T(c1)/V(1)>> <</T(c1)/V(checked)>> <</T(c1)/V(on)>> <</T(c1)/V(true)>> But none of them work. ...
I have a process that creates form data in the form of an .fdf file that then has a reference to the .pdf document that is its "parent". is it possible with any .NET process to save that .pdf file (populated with the data that came in from the .fdf)? I need this because I need to email the fully populated .pdf documents out. I've been...
We have created a servlet that provides a FDF file for our clients. The FDF file is created by iText and the output looks fine. Whenever we open the FDF either from the Servlet, or from a local file, AcrobatReader starts, asks if the PDF should be downloaded, we allow that and then we see the PDF - without the values we filled in the for...
One of my co-workers is creating an FDF form in Acrobat. I made the mistake of coming up with an answer last time she got stuck, so I just got another fun question. :-) She wants the providers to have the Save As file name populated with first name, last name, and date from existing fields on the form. Is there a way to pass the desired...
I have a PDF form with a submit button. The submit button action is set up to send the FDF with the content fields to a URL. A java class is run when this URL is accessed. There is a field in the PDF called FName. When I use the Http Request object to get the field FName null is returned. How can I access the FDF data in my java class....
I am using Pdftk and pdftk-php (which is based on forge-fdf). I'd like to generate an FDF that can be merged with a PDF to fill out a dropdown text box with multiple options. The way pdftk-php works by default, it will only fill dropdowns with a single value; passing it an array doesn't work. Here is the relevant output from pdftk filen...
I have an adobe fdf that contains data variables file that links to a pdf. When I open the file with windows explorer, the fdf opens the pdf file in adobe reader with data variables in their proper fields. When i try to open the fdf file in the web server, I get a blank page. Is there configuration on the server to do (mime type?) ...
Does any one know of a good tutorial on how to fill a pdf document fields using the fdf file format? I could find some but mostly in php (which I don't know). If it's in any of the following programming languages, that'll be great: VB6 C# VB.NET Visual Foxpro Thanks in advance, EGB ...