Ingo,

 

Thanks for your response.

 

Can you point me to any documentation that will explain what tools I need to
use to implement the workflow you described in your response?

 

Are you able to generate the Enterable PDF forms within 4D?  OR Do you have
to create the PDF with Adobe Acrobat first?

 

If you can generate the PDF within 4D, please direct me to documentation
specific to that process.

 

Thanks so much,

 

Chuck Morris

Impossible Solutions, Inc.

[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 

407-342-1300

 

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On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 16:25:49 +0200

Ingo Wolf <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote.

 

Hello,

 

we do exactly what you describe via xdp-files. That are pdf forms
encapsulated in some xml. The forms are created with Adobe Acrobat and
enhanced with Livecycle Designer. The pdf is then converted to Base64 and
embedded in a xdp, wich is xml following some specs from adobe. From 4D we
set the values of certain xml tags (via PROCESS 4D TAGS), which have the
same names as the form fields of the pdf form. Adobe Acrobat Reader then
feeds these values automatically into the corresponding form fields (upon
opening the .xdp-file). The maybe changed form field values are then sent
via email as xml file to 4D and imported back into the database records. For
linking with the original records we have xml tags containig the primary
keys.

 

HTH

Ingo Wolf

 

[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  schrieb
am Wed, 14 Jun 2017 00:47:18 -0700:

>I have a project where my client wants me to generate Enterable PDF forms

>within 4D that would be populated by variable data but also have form
fields

>that would be enterable by the customer.  

> 

> 

> 

>Then my 4D App would email the form directly to the customer to be
completed

>and then emailed back to my client.

> 

> 

> 

>It would then be best for automation if my 4D App could parse the PDF

>returned and populate data in 4D with the customer's completed form data.

 

 

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