Robert Citek wrote: > I've never used Forms, neither in 1.1.x or 2.0.x of OOo. Can you > give a bit more background of what you are doing? > > The only time I've ever used any kind of form was with Access. Is > what you are trying to do similar to what can be done with forms in > Access? > > Okay, have you ever heard of FDF? Or PDF Forms? I am trying to auto generate pre-filled PDF files on a web site. Say you enter data on a HTML web form, then download the pre-filled PDFs. Think Tax forms etc.
Problem is, how to get the PDFs with form fields w/o paying the Acrobat prices. Luckilly, the originals are MS Word, so I imported into OOo, replaced the underlines with text boxes. Named the text boxes, exported as PDF. Then I wrote a short Ruby script to replace the form fields with the web POSTed data. Very useful. Ed -- Ed Howland WDT Solutions, LLC. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (314) 962-0766 _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
