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How do I enable saving of filled-in fields on a PDF form?

Some PDF forms can be saved, including all filled-in field data: Some others can not be saved, and all filled-in field data are lost: How do I enable saving of filled-in fields on my PDF form? Thanks! ...

Dynamically Generate Editable PDF

Is there a way to create an editable PDF programmatically? By editable, I mean you can click in a text area and type in your name, that kind of thing. I'm using Ruby and have found PrinceXML and Princely to be nice projects. I'm wondering if they could do that? ...

Creating Multiple Fields on PDF Form on the fly

Hi, We have pre-populated PDF Form created in Adobe Acrobat Pro ver 9.2 that we intend to fill on the fly by using iText and Java. The problem I have is: Ideally I am looking for "A FIELD" in PDF Form that can be created once when creating the pdf form. Then subsequent fields can be created multiple times one after another on the fl...

Multiselect Form Field in PDF

Using PDF, is it possible to create a single form element with multiple fields of which several can be selected? For example, in HTML, one can create a set of checkboxes associated with the same field name: <div>Select one for Member of the School Board</div> <input type="checkbox" name="field(school)" value="vote1"> <span class="label"...

Dynamically append number to PDF or make submit button change its URL based on that number.

I'm serving up PDFs from a SQL db and presenting them in the browser. I'm trying to figure out a way to embed a number in the PDF dynamically so that the recordID for that PDFs SQL record is available to me when the user submits the XML form data. The user hits the submit button on the form and the form submits its XML data to my submiss...

How to fill out a pdf file programatically?

What techniques available to fill a pdf form automatically using external data and save them. I have to use data from a database to fill a template pdf and save a copy of it on disk with that data. Language and platform is not issue but it would be good if it can run on windows and Linux. Any one can guide me through it or point to any ...

Iterating over all fields in a PDF form with JavaScript

I would like to modify some properties for all fields in a PDF form in response to the user clicking a button. Which property or method will return me the collection of fields so that I can iterate over them? ...

Is there any library out there which can generate pdf form like adobe acrobat ?

Is there any library out there which can generate pdf form like adobe acrobt ? ...

Modify PDF Forms from a PHP site.

We currently use PDForm to grab a blank pdf file (no values, just form fields and text) and list the form fields. We then query our database for the values which match those field names and create a pdf file with the newly populated data which the user can download from our site. The thing is PDForm is about $5,000 per machine and we a...

Zend_Pdf manipulating PDF Form Fields

I currently have a project there are a number of forms that are processed and stored in the DB. Upon successful completion an admin is notified by email with the contents of that form submission. The problem is for one of these forms i need it to look exactly like the mail order version which I have in PDF format. So I have two basic ...

Mutating PDF editable fields programatically

Out of tons of questions and answers here about manipulating PDF's with PHP, but none of them seem to fit my requirement. Programmatically, I want to be able to update the content of editable fields. Preferably with PHP. If it matters, the PDF files will be initially hand crafted (as sort of 'template' files that will be copied and fi...