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The conclusion seems to be 'don't even think about it'.
Of course - it didn't dawn on me that PDF's have everything absolutely positioned - basically as though it were an image (of course with vector graphics). Yikes.
Here's the problem/need. I have users who know how to create PDFs and MS Word documents (only by using MS Word though). They CANNOT use XML or anything remotely like they - they need buttons to click and boxes to fill out. However, they need to be able to create templates for future PDFs (to be run through my program) from the Word or PDF documents they created. In other words, they can tell me, "This is what I want it to look like," only by showing me the actual Word or PDF document. Then they have every section of text as changeable (that part's not a problem). HOWEVER, they need to be able to do this in real time - without needing to have me create an XML file that does what their PDF/Word doc has.
The problem is I don't know of any Word reader that's really working (Apache's POI Word is not working), and from what you're telling me, reverse engineering a PDF is pretty much impossible. Does anyone have a solution?
Of course, you may have no choice. -- John Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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