> I'm having a bit of confusion about this PDF thread that has been going
back
> and forth the last few weeks and I'm not sure where the good advice
recently
> posted actually points.
>
> Here is what I want to do:
>
> 1) dynamically fill in data from a DB to a PDF file, using CF.
> 2) how to create that PDF file ahead of time (NOT on-the-fly!)
I have not tested the Adobe FDF ActiveX .... aka Adobe FDF Toolkit under
heavy loads, but its seems to work ok so far.
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/forms.html
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/DOCS/fdftkref.pdf
Here's what we're doing with forms - so far .....
[kudos to Aymeric Grassart - of course]
1. Create your PDF document/form distill it/pdfwriter driver from word
etc.....
2. Draw the "to be filled in form fields" on your pdf doc/form and assign
them properties
using the Adobe Acrobat full version form tool. There are other methods
that are kinda
interesting too - like scanning the doc from OmniForm4 and saving as a PDF
:-)
3. Inside Adobe Acrobat - full version - export FDF data (blank form data)
to an FDF file on the webserver. This fdf will be used later as a
"template" FDF to be modified / filled in in your process.....
[myFirstFDF.fdf]
4. Use <CFOBJECT> to call the tools in the FDF Toolkit activeX to pump data
into your
your PDf Form/file from steps 1&2 above.
See real simple example below:
<!--- Instantiate an FDF ActiveX object on webserver --->
<cfobject type="COM"
action="create"
class="FdfApp.FdfApp"
name="objFdf">
<!--- Tell the object which fdf to modify --->
<cfset theFDF =
objFdf.FDFOpenFromFile("q:\yourFiles\fdfDir\myFirstFDF.fdf")>
<!--- Set all of the form fields with their appropriate values. --->
<cfscript>
myFDF1 = theFDF.FDFSetValue ("fdfField1", "#CFQuery1#", "false");
myFDF2 = theFDF.FDFSetValue ("fdfField2", "#CFQuery2#", "false");
myFDF3 = theFDF.FDFSetValue ("fdfField3", "#CFQuery3#", "false");
</cfscript>
<!--- set the "PDF" file location to be used to DISPLAY the field
data. --->
<cfset setfile =
theFDF.FDFSetFile("http://192.168.1.100/pdfForms/mySimple.pdf")>
<!--- Save the new Fdf to the webserver --->
<cfset tmp = theFDF.FDFSaveToFile("q:\yourFiles\fdfDir\myFirstFDF.fdf")>
<!--- you'll likely need to develop a clever random "fdf" file naming scheme
of some sort
as the toolkit doesnt deal with that - and will overwrite your
other fdf data --->
<!--- Save FDF values to str var --->
<!--- <cfset savestr = theFDF.FDFSaveToStr()> --->
<!--- theres discussion that you can launch the data display in the pdf
form from a
memory buffer - using the FDFSaveToString() without the above
write to the file system
but I have yet to figure that out --->
<!--- Close the theFDF object --->
<cfset closedf = theFDF.FDFClose()>
<!--- Free the objFDF object --->
<cfset objFDF = "">
<!--- Now, display the form filled with this fdf's data - 2 options --->
<!--- Using cflocation method --->
<CFLOCATION URL="http://www.yourserver.com/fdftemp/myFirst.fdf">
<!--- Using CFCONTENT method --->
<cfcontent type="application/vnd.fdf"
file="q:\yourFiles\fdfDir\myFirstFDF.fdf">
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