Re: Providing precompleted PDF forms in Linux

2007-09-18 Thread David Suna
You can also do this via PHP either using the PHP FDF toolkit or directly from PHP using any of the various code samples found on http://www.php.net/fdf or do a google search on "php pdf form". David Suna [EMAIL PROTECTED] Amos Shapira wrote: On 18/09/2007, *Gadi Cohen* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Providing precompleted PDF forms in Linux

2007-09-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 18/09/2007, Gadi Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Meir Kriheli wrote: > > > PDF has the notion of forms, FDF[1]. > > > > Linux.com published few months ago an article about pdftk[2]. In that > > article, under "Filling out forms", pdftk is used to fill the form > fields. > > > > [1] http://w

Re: Providing precompleted PDF forms in Linux

2007-09-18 Thread Michael Tewner
I doubt this would fit your requirements - being a windows tool and all- but perhaps someone else will stumble over this thread... If anyone out there is interested, there is a microsoft tool called InfoPath that does something similar to this. You build a form, it creates the database behind it a

Re: Providing precompleted PDF forms in Linux

2007-09-18 Thread Gadi Cohen
Shachar Shemesh wrote: > I have to admit that I have never came across the term "PDF form", and > so I have little idea what that entails. > It's kind of like a regular HTML form in PDF format... it's a PDF document with text input fields, select boxes, etc, that can either be printed or submi

Re: Providing precompleted PDF forms in Linux

2007-09-18 Thread Meir Kriheli
Gadi Cohen wrote: > Hi Guys > > > IN SHORT: I need to take an existing PDF file, mark it as a form (never > done this before but assuming it won't be hard to do this using Adobe > Acrobat; this step can be done in Windows), and ultimately have the form > completed in Linux/PHP so that the end use

Re: Providing precompleted PDF forms in Linux

2007-09-18 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 01:13:19PM +0200, Gadi Cohen wrote: > > IN SHORT: I need to take an existing PDF file, mark it as a form (never > done this before but assuming it won't be hard to do this using Adobe > Acrobat; this step can be done in Windows), and ultimately have the form > completed in

Re: Providing precompleted PDF forms in Linux

2007-09-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Gadi Cohen wrote: > > Hi Guys > > > IN SHORT: I need to take an existing PDF file, mark it as a form > I have to admit that I have never came across the term "PDF form", and so I have little idea what that entails. > > Doing this via COM calls to a Windows server is not an option. I want > the for

Providing precompleted PDF forms in Linux

2007-09-18 Thread Gadi Cohen
Hi Guys IN SHORT: I need to take an existing PDF file, mark it as a form (never done this before but assuming it won't be hard to do this using Adobe Acrobat; this step can be done in Windows), and ultimately have the form completed in Linux/PHP so that the end user can downloaded a precompleted