Have you heard about using FDF or XFDF (xml version) with PDF's
before? I've done this before although with creating either the FDF or
XFDF data with PHP and then passing that data into a PDF, populating
the fields in the PDF. Although the only downside with that I could
never actually merge the data and the PDF together; the only way that
was possible was to have Adobe Professional and save as... I did find
one solution though was to use iText (<a href="http://www.lowagie.com/iText/">http://www.lowagie.com/iText/</a>)
which is a Java program that will take either FDF or XPDF and merge the
data with a PDF. I know it's not PHP, but it was the software that I
found that would merge the data and PDF together.<br>
<br>
Justin<br>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/21/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Dave J. Hala Jr.</b> <<a href="mailto:dave@58ghz.net">dave@58ghz.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
That seems to be the general process. My problem is that the PDF I want<br>to build has a level of formatting that is beyond what I can do with<br>htmldoc.<br><br>Htmldoc is really fast, and works really well, but it has limits.
<br><br>On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 06:50, laith wrote:<br>> The only thing we are doing as far as that goes is dynamically building<br>> the pdf with the data built in.<br>><br>> I am not familiar with a way to pass data into a pdf as you mention.
<br>> Doesn't mean you can't, I've just never heard of it.<br>><br>> laith<br>><br>> Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:<br>> > I have an application that I populate with data from a table. Basically,<br>> > I read the data from a table and create an html page, then I use htmldoc
<br>> > to convert it into a pdf.<br>> ><br>> > I'd like to try something differant. I remember seeing something<br>> > somewhere that allowed you to create a pdf, then populate the PDF by<br>> > passing the data to it as parameters.
<br>> ><br>> > Does anyone do this? What tools are you using?<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > :) Dave<br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> ciapug mailing list<br>>
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