Thanks, Bobby. That's basically the way we're doing it. CF10 makes this quite simple, it turns out.
Regards, Stephen On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Bobby <bo...@acoderslife.com> wrote: > > It has been a very long time but a number of years ago, I did a college > application in PDF format. > > The PDF was already defined by the college and the format couldn't change. > What I did was go into the PDF and make all of the "answer" sections form > fields. Then, obviously, created a web form to gather all the answers. > > Once the form was submitted, all of those answers were used to generate a > PDF answer file. The two files together populated the PDF with all the > answers. It was tedious work since all the answer fields needed to match > the PDF field names exactly (it was a huge application) but once that was > done, it worked like a champ. > > It was all native CF code in (if I recall) CF6. > > > > On 12/12/12 10:59 AM, "Stephen Hait" <sh...@mindspring.com> wrote: > > > > >We have an app that takes a user's info and uses it to populate an > >existing, blank Acrobat PDF form template that the user can then view, > >save > >or print. We had been using a commercial component, ActivePDFToolkit, for > >this on a CF7 platform. > > > >Our process previously had been to populate the PDF form template from a > >query, then to flatten and save the resulting PDF with a unique name. Now > >we want to use CF10 to accomplish the same goal. > > > >I'd be interested in discussing the approaches you may have taken for > >doing > >this type of thing with CF10. If anyone has experience with this and would > >be willing to discuss how you've approached it, please let me know, either > >through the list or by e-mail. > > > >Regards, > >Stephen Hait > >sh...@mindspring.com > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:353873 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
