[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for you patience in answering me :)
I wanted your input regarding designing my requirement. In application,
on which I working, there would be lot of email template and which will
be generated and sent by client for whom we are working (one I sent u in
attachment). I am thinking to ask client to send the email in template
in form of AcroForm. Then I can use iTEXT to populate the fields using
iText.
This would be better approach?
Here in template few fields will be repetitive (in some cases we have to
show 2 or more Principal Investigator) like Principal Investigator (see
attachment) so can I insert(copy) portion of text in AcroForm through
iText?
I don't know if I understand the question well enough to give a good answer.
Let me rephrase it:
If your customer gives you a form like the one you attached to your mail
and instead of placeholders marked with < > he has added form fields,
then you can fill these exact form fields (exact coordinates) with content.
In this case the original PDF acts as a template.
If your customer gives you a form like the one you attached to your mail
and says: this is an example (NOT a template) and you have to have one
line with the date, one OR MORE blocks with principal investigator
and the TEXT OF EXEMPTION CATEGORY SELECTED BY CHAIR
can be a variable number of lines, then any PDF they send you is
worthless. It can't be used to compose a new PDF file.
As I already explained I have plenty of projects where I solved this
problem using XML. For instance: the student administration of Ghent
University gives me a PDF with the background of the letter, containing
a header and a footer. They also give me a template in XML. In this
XML there are different clauses.
I read the background letter in an onOpenDocument event,
add the background to each page in an onStartPage event
and then I loop over the database.
For every student I parse the XML file. I replace the <student_name />
and <student_address /> tag with the correct address. When I encounter
a processing instruction wiht <?years_of_study academic_year="2005" ?>
I add a list with one or more study programmes and I select the clauses
that apply for each specific student. Sometimes only one clause applies,
sometimes different clauses apply, causing the layout to differ from student
to student.
I think this is the solution you need. Before you ask: the code I am
writing for Ghent University is closed source.
br,
Bruno
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