Hi All,

The issue I am facing is this:  1200+ PDF forms that employees will need to 
sign.  The docs are being created in MS Word, and all have a standard signature 
block.  We have prototyped using LiveCycle Designer 8 to add fields to static 
PDF files (print Word files into Acrobat, import into LiveCycle and paste in 
fields) but this is pretty labor-intensive to use with a minimum of 1200 forms 
per quarter.  

The employee forms go into a CF8/Oracle library app (stored as BLOBs) and 
served up for 7,000 or so employees to sign.  Posted data goes back into 
database.

Here is the issue:   Does anyone know any way to use some combination of cfpdf 
/ cfpdfform / cfdocument that will allow us to create ONE generic signature 
block form, 1200 static PDF files, and merge them on the fly? 

<cfdocument> apparently does not allow PDF data to be included with a 
<cfpdfform>, as I have tried outputting PDF variables, toBinary(PDF variable), 
PDF served by <cfcontent> and various other combinations.  

(If the non-form data were HTML, we could easily output in a 
<cfdocumentsection> of the cfdocument, and add the <cfpdfform 
source="#genericForm#" action="populate"> and be done with it.  But, we can't.)

<cfpdf action="merge"> with a combination of a static PDF file and a populated 
form results in a flattend PDF file with no form data.

I am acutely aware that LiveCycle 8 uses the XFA schema, and regular PDF 
documents use a different schema.  And, this may prohibit what we want to do.

If anyone has experience with CF8 PDFs and PDF forms, or has any helpful 
thoughts, I would be appreciatively gross.  Needless to say, this is a six 
month project that must be live in four weeks ;-)

Thanks!

Jim Bates
Verizon Business




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