rodrigo_borges wrote: > Hy, > my English is not good but I expect to pass the idea of my problem. > I'm working on a system that will pick up some data from a form and > generate a PDF that will be stored on a database. This PDF must obey > some rules like alignment, font type and size, margins, etc. > Later, the user can change some informations on PDF then I will need to > fill each field on HTML form with specific parts of PDF. I tryed to > use PDF form and when recovering from database without success. > Because the way the system is built, it's not a good idea to submit in Adobe > Reader. > How can I solve my problem? I Is there some way to store the data of > fields without submit the PDF file?
First of all: have you taken the time to read: http://itext.ugent.be/articles/eid-pdf/ It has some PDF form examples. You are talking about a PDF form (used as a template) and data. I assume that you have the form somewhere on the file system and that you want to store the data in the database. Storing the PDF in the database is possible (and if it doesn't work, you should post the problem to the database mailinglist to inform about storing binaries in a database), but I don't understand why you would want to do this. Then suddenly you start talking about an HTML form, as if you deliberately want to confuse us. I agree: sometimes it is better to provide an HTML form to retrieve the data, store the data in a database, and then use this data to fill a PDF form. As a matter of fact that is exactly what we are doing at Ghent University when we grade students. See http://itext.ugent.be/articles/ects-ict/index.php?page=4 (Look for 'Transcript of Records'). After you have read these articles post your question again, but please explain what you really want; don't juggle with concepts to make people confused. Don't tell us something doesn't work (like storing a PDF in a database) because you don't know how to make it work. br, Brun ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
