I will take a look. Currently fussing with basic PDF form (subforms, flowing vs positioned, dynamic vs static, master pages, etc, etc) using Acrobat's LiveCycle Designer. Powerful tool but obtuse.
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Hancock Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 4:20 PM To: Dataperfect Users Discussion Group Subject: Re: [Dataperf] XML/PDF Hi Matt, Here is another link you might find helpful http://alt-soft.com/ Regards Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Hancock <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dataperfect Users Discussion Group <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 12:26 PM Subject: Re: [Dataperf] XML/PDF Hi Matt, No I haven't but I thought about it at various times... I am not sure it is straight forward, but I don't think its rocket science... take a look at the Wikipedia article about XML-FO (Formatting Objects) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSL_Formatting_Objects I think you need to compose the template document into a DocBook or TEI format, but I have never really gotten into the various XML document schemas... But after thatyou can use a command line XSLT processor to create the resultant PDF document... Personally I am heading towards the idea of performing merges in conjunction with an XML capable wordprocessor, such as WordPerfect, Word or Open Office.. With XML data from DP and an XSLT transformation with these you get a document that can either be 100% complete or it can be partialloy generated with additional manually editing. There are often times when it is not convenient to have content sitting inside a database and wordprocessing diocuments, speadsheets etc are a great way to store adhoc and unformatted data... If the final document is stored in an XML format then you can use the database to record the filename and the XPath to the content and so other reports can use both the database and the documents to create even more elaborate reports Let me know how it goes I am interested to see how it goes Bye Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: Matt Dwyer <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dataperfect Users Discussion Group <mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 9:10 AM Subject: RE: [Dataperf] XML/PDF Looking into a tiny bit, you can do this with full Acrobat 8 (which I have) by creating a form, and exporting the data out to see format. Then write a report to create the xml from DP. Then go into Acrobat, load the form, and click on the Forms menu, select Manage Form Data submenu and then click on Import Data and point at the xml file. Presto, form is filled with data from the dp report. It would be much, much nicer if I could do that on the command line of course. ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Dwyer Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:01 PM To: Dataperfect Users Discussion Group Subject: [Dataperf] XML/PDF Brian, Have you ever tried taking XML output from DP and merging into a PDF form? I started messing with pdf forms a bit with Adobe 8, and they use xml for data, but I have not figured out how to merge them. -MD ________________________________ _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf ________________________________ _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
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