Re: [iText-questions] Using PDF as templates

[Christer Sandberg]

Here at the Swedish Election Authority we're using templates created in 
Adobe InDesign. We're not using form fields since that dosen't fit our 
needs. In InDesign we usually create a dummy layer representing dynamic 
data to be added and take the X and Y coordinates and put them in the 
java code, XML file, properties file or similar. Then we use that 
information to produce the final PDF which can be ballot papers, voting 
cards etc, using PdfContentByte. For us this works great and gives us 
more power than using form fields.

/Christer

Kenneth wrote:
I am wondering if iText or some other PDF java library 
could use PDF files as templates? The PDF templates can 
contain tags, like ~FIRST_NAME~,~DESCRIPTION~ or similar 
that is changes to dynamic contents from an application/database. 
This should be use to personalise documents to different receivers.
The orginal PDF file is not generated internal so I can not
generate the PDF from XML or similar, then I whould use that
solution.

I saw that maybe Form fields could be used and with software be
replaced with dynamic data/text and then flatten the file, but is
there some solution of not using Form fields?
- Kenneth





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