On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Brandon Kaminsky <bkami...@broward.edu>wrote:
> I didn’t want to bore the thread with our intended solution but if it > will help set the context that you need to be able to answer to the question > then here you are: > > > > 1.)We are serving a web form to students who may or may not have Adobe > Acrobat - hence the need for a web-based form. > > 2.)We need a complete “snapshot” of the form along with the student > answers stored in our imaging system for government-required record keeping. > > 3.)The form has graphics, logos, etc and is formatted in a fairly precise > manner. > > 4.)Our imaging system requires files to be in PDF or TIFF format. > > > > Based on your response, I’m guessing that we’d capture the data from the > form submission and use it to populate a pre-built PDF using itext? Is that > how it would function? Thank you. > > ... > *I* certainly manage Web forms that capture data for government operations, and render the results to PDF for statutory requirements of one form or another. Sometimes, but not always, I rely on iText. In that sense, then, I suppose, yes, I constitute an existence proof that it *could* function that way for you. I don't understand your precise requirements, though, and certainly am not in a position to judge whether iText is the *best* solution. I'll tangentially speculate, though, based on my own experience, that there might be *no* solution: that is, this talk about "precise" graphics and exact layouts makes me wonder whether, once again, the agencies involved have specified an impossible target. I know there are plenty of times when I've had to figure out what makes sense, then go back to the decision-makers to ask them to change their specs to match reality. Good luck.
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