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,
Even if the PDF is generated elsewhere, you can still
add form fields, which act as your tags, with Acrobat
or third-pary products such as PDFTypewriter.
Then fill and flatten the fields at production time.
Another option is to have two copies of the PDF
template, one with and one without field
At 06:47 AM 4/2/2004, 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.
Using PDF as your "t
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 rece
