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

Just a thought,
You may be able to instead of having them download, just display it  
as a html page
and the fields will be there, then attach a PHP mail script to it  
somehow with a macro or something to that effect.
Have it call on this php script to send the message and/or store in  
the database.
The php script will have to be attached to the basic pdf before its  
uploaded, but I think that is possible.
Might be worth some investigating. Doesn't seem to difficult.

Karl


On May 2, 2010, at 12:18 AM, Karl DeSaulniers wrote:

> Hi Ron,
> I have done this once before and what I had to do was let the user  
> download the pdf that had the fields in it, they fill in the fields  
> and email the pdf back, right from acrobat.
> In the pdf, you set the fields to lock after they finish and  
> submit. You can also have them sign the document virtually then  
> lock the whole document.
> Then you set it up to email the pdf back to you. They will need a  
> email program for this on their computer of course. Like Eudora or  
> Mail or Outlook.
> You can put a notice link in the PDF to an upload form on your site  
> if they do not have a mail program.
>
> You will need Acrobat Professional to do this though. There may be  
> another one I don't know of.
> HTH,
>
> Karl
>
>
> On May 1, 2010, at 10:36 PM, listread wrote:
>
>> 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:
>>> "listread"<[email protected]>  wrote in message
>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>
>>>> 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:
>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>
>>> Take a peek at this
>>>
>>> http://fpdf.org/
>>>
>>> Writing to a pdf from php is very cumbersome, this seems to take  
>>> some of the
>>> sting out.
>>>
>>> Gary
>>>
>>>
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