I have just discovered the benefit of PDF Forms in CF 8. However, I
have one small dilemma. Is there a way to generate a static PDF from
a dynamic PDF Form?
In other words, I have a several Word documents that together make up
a contract that we send out to our clients. Currently, our Contract
Administrator opens the Word contract template and modifies the client
name, client address, client phone number, . . . . etc each time she
needs to create a new contract.
I wanted to make this process more automated, especially since we
already have all the client data in our database. So, I converted
these documents to PDF Forms from Word Docs using Live Designer. I
figured this was they best approach so that as the contract forms
require changes (which occurs every 6 months or so) anyone could go in
and change the basic content of the text fields in Live Designer (as
opposed to creating the contract docs in a .cfm page and using
CFDOCUMENT to create the PDF, which would require someone to have to
make sense of HTML and all other stuff that I would include in a .cfm
page to allow for proper formatting).
The benefit to me is that I was then able to include floating fields
so that our Contract Administrator no longer needs to manually modify
the client information for each contract. Now she can select the
client from a drop down and click a button to generate the contract.
Only some of the pages in our contract require customization for each
client. Other pages are identical for all clients. The problem I
have having is that when I use cfpdf action=merge to pull together the
static PDF files and the dynamically created PDF Forms the final PDF
document only ends up containing the website created PDF Form. The
other static PDF documents just seems to not be merged. I thought if
I could somehow tell the CFPDFFORM tag to create a static PDF Form
without any embedded or attached data then the merging would be
successful.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated. (I hope this makes sense,
and I also am sorry for the long question)
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