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Rob Certified Organic "When you put things in quotes, people think someone actually said it." http://treebeard.sourceforge.net http://ruinworld.sourceforge.net Scientia Est Potentia -----Original Message----- From: webguy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 4:34 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: What are your experiences with PDF forms/FDF/CFMX? Look at ActivePDF.com, Have to be careful with MX and COM, though. Also you can do XML -> PDF with xml-fo fop.apache.org. also look at http://www.school-for-champions.com/coldfusion/cftopdf.htm http://www.cfcomet.com/pdf/ web guy > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff Small [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 25 November 2002 05:12 > To: CF-Talk > Subject: What are your experiences with PDF forms/FDF/CFMX? > > > 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 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
