Use Filemaker as the frontend and create the forms you wish to print as layouts. The applicant will enter data and the fields will be filled. You can verify and compare for completeness and then your client will simply print the pages. Stephen
>ActivePDF.com has an object (PDF Toolkit) for creating dynamic PDF documents >that works excellent with Witango. I have been using it for years and have >had great success and reliability with the product. Basically, you create a >PFD template and name the fields the same as your database columns. It also >works great if you have an area with a variable amount of rows or pages. > >-----Original Message----- >From: Robert Shubert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 7:36 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: Suggestions welcomed... > >Isn't there a way to create a PDF template, collect data online into a >database, then combine the two in to a final pdf document, which you >would then email and he'd open and print? I sure hope so anyway, because >I have intention to do something like this for a client of mine later >this year. > >Robert > >-----Original Message----- >From: Tom Ferguson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2004 6:15 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Witango-Talk: Suggestions welcomed... > >Hi All... > >I have a client who runs a local Restaurant. He wants to put a job >application online in such a manner that a prospective employee can fill >out >this application and it would be e-mailed to him (the employer, my >client) >looking like a regular paper form that he could print. It's like 4 or 5 >pages. > >Currently the job application is in a Word Doc. > >There are no limitations or restrictions on how to accomplish this. > >I current have a Windows program I have developed that accesses an >online >database and prints out predefined forms. I could adapt this program so >that the online form was filled out and the info stored on my server; >then >he could run this program at his location, pull the data, and print the >form, but I'd like to do this in a simpler way if that is possible. > >Any suggestions would be welcome... surely there has to be something >simple. > >TIA > >Tom Ferguson > >________________________________________________________________________ >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf > >________________________________________________________________________ >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf >________________________________________________________________________ >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
