On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 7:05 PM, M Jarvis <brewda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm working up a proof-of-concept thing to add to our report writing > engine, that being the ability to export our text based reports into a PDF. > I know how to do the FDF creation part of this (thanks again Ted) but I > seem to be coming up short in a couple of areas.
Glad to help. > > I am using LibreOffice to create my PDF template file, and not sure if the > problem lives in there or not. I add a textbox control to a document, save > as PDF, and later the FDF merge works just fine. Are you using pdftk to do the PDF-FDF merge? If so, there are a couple of commands starting with "dump" that can tell you a little bit more about what pdftk is seeing in the document, perhaps a clue. > BUT if the text starts > getting any longer than what fits into the textbox as I've laid it out in > the PDF, scroll bars appear and the textbox doesn't expand. I'm not saying > it *should* do so automatically, but I can't figure out how to do that or > even if it's possible. > > Or, is there some other control available to LibreOffice I might try using > that lets me FDF merge in files of large size? The student has exceeded the teacher :) My customers use CutePDFPro for all of the PDFs they need to turn into data-fillable ones. > In a perfect world there wouldn't be any control visible to the user at > all, just the text of the report. In LibreOffice, with the textbox control selected, you can right-mouse click over an existing textbox, select "Control" and get a property page where you tell it to be multi-line and turn off the scroll bars, but I don't see an option to "rubber-band" the length > Some of our reports can be several thousand pages for Year-End stuff and > all that... > > Installing any software such as CutePDF or other to help drive this isn't > an option at this time. > Don't you hate it when you're backed into a corner, but you can't use the tool that would solve the problem? -- Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CACW6n4tiGYwxhkJMzfhvmbCKribEKhZ4gjg=by8ofpdaju2...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
