This forum is not full of Acrobat experts that reply to messages. I have yet to figure out how to populate the barcode field.
I think the basic approach would be to extract the data (to get the structure) now use this as a template. Fill in your data and add it back to the PDF. <cfpdfform source="c:\employeeid123.pdf" result="c:\ formdata.xml" overwrite="yes" action="read"/> <cfpdfform source="c:\payslipTemplate.pdf" action="populate" XMLdata="c:\formdata.xml"/> alternatively you can use structs instead of XML. -aP ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:314194 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4

