I think you nailed it, Howard: there's a big difference between a PDF document and a PDF form. ColdFusion 8 allows you to do a number of things with PDF documents, but because they are documents, not structured data containers, ColdFusion 8 doesn't have any specific functionality for dealing with their contents. However, with PDF forms, ColdFusion 8 can both read and write form field values.
Josh From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Fore Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 3:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] CF8 & PDFs I think (Josh please correct me) that the availability of the data in the final PDF file has more to do with how the PDF was created. If you just use a PDF printer to create the file your data isn't available, but my understanding was that if you used a "PDF form" on in the input side then the data is still in those form fields in the binary file and thus extractable. Otherwise I don't see what the excitement would be about with PDF workflows in Livecycle. On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Jeff Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Ok, I took your advice from your first post and converted it to text and dumped it just to see what I would be dealing with. I understand what you are saying about pulling structured data from an unstructured source. I guess my thought was if the the document was created from a form, that there may be a way to pull the form fields out once the document had been created.... and the answer is no. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it." - Jeff Atwood ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by FusionLink<http://www.fusionlink.com> ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -------------------------------------------------------------
