[ciapug] PDF's

[Justin Cook]

Have you heard about using FDF or XFDF (xml version) with PDF's before? I've
done this before although with creating either the FDF or XFDF data with PHP
and then passing that data into a PDF, populating the fields in the PDF.
Although the only downside with that I could never actually merge the data
and the PDF together; the only way that was possible was to have Adobe
Professional and save as... I did find one solution though was to use iText
(http://www.lowagie.com/iText/) which is a Java program that will take
either FDF or XPDF and merge the data with a PDF. I know it's not PHP, but
it was the software that I found that would merge the data and PDF together.

Justin


On 9/21/05, Dave J. Hala Jr. <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:
>
> That seems to be the general process. My problem is that the PDF I want
> to build has a level of formatting that is beyond what I can do with
> htmldoc.
>
> Htmldoc is really fast, and works really well, but it has limits.
>
> On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 06:50, laith wrote:
> > The only thing we are doing as far as that goes is dynamically building
> > the pdf with the data built in.
> >
> > I am not familiar with a way to pass data into a pdf as you mention.
> > Doesn't mean you can't, I've just never heard of it.
> >
> > laith
> >
> > Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> > > I have an application that I populate with data from a table.
> Basically,
> > > I read the data from a table and create an html page, then I use
> htmldoc
> > > to convert it into a pdf.
> > >
> > > I'd like to try something differant. I remember seeing something
> > > somewhere that allowed you to create a pdf, then populate the PDF by
> > > passing the data to it as parameters.
> > >
> > > Does anyone do this? What tools are you using?
> > >
> > >
> > > :) Dave
> >
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