Large insurance company has a lot of "forms" that are pdf files. They're not true forms, in the sense that they've had form fields placed in them and defined. They're merely Word documents (and in some case....no lie...scans of older forms, saved as tifs, and output as a pdf from photoshop...trust me, I had NOTHING to do with the origin of these pdf files...lol) that have been saved as pdf files.
Now, here's the question. They want to turn them into forms that will accept data, and submit it, then on the back end, populate a pdf from the submitted fdf file, and attach it to an email and send it to the person receiving the form submission. I think there's something about how it (the form) has to be submitted exactly like it appears so that the person receiving it on the other end can simply print it and file it. (I know, I know...please...I went all around this over the weekend). I can think of about a hundred reasons why I hate the very idea of approaching this project in this manner, and I offered a compromise solution of creating web forms in dreamweaver, and, using cfmx, store the information in a database, and generate an email with a link to a page that will display the submitted information, and allow the users to click a link that will take that information and generate a dynamically populated PDF file, then give them the ability to attach it to an email and send it to a predetermined recipient list. This was somewhat well received, and I began the task of searching for ways to accomplish this. It seems easy enough on the backend. Has anyone else tried anything like this? It would be generated on a Windows Machine running IIS and Windows 2000 server, running ColdFusionMX. What ways did you do it? Was it successful? Any advice on pitfalls to avoid? Any advice at all? I think we *might* need to actually submit a PDF file (due, believe it or not, to some insurance laws about hard copies of applications and form submissions), and I'm particularly interested in any tales of experiences with "Digital Signatures" in Acrobat, and how to handle that in CF. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm
