Itext will happily take care of putting the value of Name into the field in the PDF.
The rest of the process is just standard web programming... Leonard On 2/2/09 5:30 PM, "Steve M" <p3tu...@gmail.com> wrote: hi i have a pre-made pdf file with a field called 'name'. i like the pdf file as is but for the user, i want them to fill out a web form that has a field called 'name' the web form and pdf file are in the same folder on my server when the user clicks submit i want the field data they typed in to the 'name' field to transfer into the 'name' field on the pdf file, and then of course have the pdf file delivered to the user so they can print it out i would also like to export the data to a MySQL database, or have it compiled as a fdf file and either saved in the same folder or emailed to me is this possible? what is the best way to do this? i have spent a zillion hours trying to get an answer. any help would be great thanks! -- Leonard Rosenthol PDF Standards Architect Adobe Systems Incorporated ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php