Have a look here:

http://www.cfcomet.com/pdf/

More specifically, look at solutions utilizing FDF files and not needing
COM.

These FDFs can be generated server-side allowing you to pre-populate
some of the form information from a database etc. before sending to the
user who can then fill in the rest online.

Have a look at the Adobe website for their form toolkit API. Depending
on your exact requirements it might be easier than you think and won't
require a third-party product like Active PDF.

Andr�

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: 25 June 2003 05:10
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Active PDF?

Howdy -

I have a client who wanted to convert a number of Word-created forms to
PDF's and put them up on their site.  No sweat.  Then, they wanted the
user
to be able to fill out form fields and have Acrobat do all the math, and
they could print out a nice, cleanly filled-out form to sign and fax.
Again, no problem at all.

Now, however, they'd like to take the final step and have fully
interactive
PDF's - where certain dynamic fields are populated from database
information, and the user can "submit" the PDF like they would any other
web
form and have CF process it accordingly.

I've looked at ActivePDF, but before I dive into that, I wanted to send
out
some feelers to the group to see if anyone's worked with that with CF5
before.  Money's not an object (to a point), so if there's a
particularly
awesome package there I should look into, I'm open to some suggestions.
I
am fiddling with XSL:FO syntax right now, but it's not exactly what I'm
looking for, since I have to work off a previously-existing document
(and I
don't have a great deal of time to really get elbow-deep in *yet
another*
XML spec.)  :)

Thanks,

- Jim


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