You present the form on line, user fills the form, submit, you grab the data and create a pdf using libs and calls and send them the pdf with their data in it. Yes you will be waisting electrons generating the whole pdf over and over again when they make changes to the data, bur electrons can be recycled very easily and don't harm the environment. Cheers Szemir
On October 6, 2005 17:04, Adil Kodian wrote: > there are a ton of products that generate PDF. From PHP you could simply do > a nicely formatted HTML output, then do HTML2PS then do PS2PDF - it is > easy. > > However, there is no way to create a fillable PDF file from this > combination. > > On 10/6/05, Nathan Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 06, 2005 03:15 PM, Jarrod Major <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Thursday 06 October 2005 3:01 pm, Ian Bruseker wrote: > > >>PDF form using free software? Unfortunately, I don't know. I know > > >>you can make PDFs from OpenOffice, but I don't know if you can make > > > > > >You can make PDF's from any Koffice apps as well, they are handled a > > >little > > >differently, you don't save as or export as, rather, you go to print > > >the file > > >but instead of printing it, you select "Print to File (PDF)" and you > > >can > > >specify where it will save it. > > > > > >I don't know how to do fillable forms either but I thought that > > >everyone > > >should know about this with Koffice apps as they are unsung heroes in > > >the > > >productivity software world. I use em all the time and they do just > > >about > > >everything I need. > > > > > >Sorry for the sidestep... > > > > > >-- > > >Jarrod Major > > >Registered Linux User: #224211 > > >GPG Fingerprint: 4556 EFA8 EC69 7C54 EE33 C881 2C7C 0E10 2439 231E > > > > Have a look at fpdf.org <http://fpdf.org>, used it in the past to create > > pdfs from MySQL > > queries. Have never used Adobe so I can't compare the features. > > > > > > Nathan > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
