Re: [PHP-DB] How to use PHP to fill in existing pdf document

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Yes, I've looked hard at fdpf and see how it is used to generate a new 
pdf, but I need to simply fill in the form fields in an existing pdf.  
If it can do that, I'm not finding the feature....

Thanks,

- Ron

On 5/1/2010 7:43 PM, Gary wrote:
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>> Yes, we can first ask the user to fill in a form, but then comes the part
>> I don't understand - how to covert it to pdf.
>>
>> It would be best if we could just fill in the fields on an existing form,
>> but it would also work to print the printer friendly form to the server's
>> printer queue, which could really be a postscript file we could then
>> convert to pdf.  In that case, I need to learn how to get PHP to print to
>> the server's printer...
>>
>> - Ron
>>
>> On 5/1/2010 7:53 AM, nagendra prasad wrote:
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>>> I am not sure if this works for your project but you can first ask user
>>> to
>>> fill the form in PHP and then convert it into PDF. What say?
>>>
>>>
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> Ron
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> Take a peek at this
>
> http://fpdf.org/
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> Writing to a pdf from php is very cumbersome, this seems to take some of the
> sting out.
>
> Gary
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