Well, it happens to be that I have a table of text fields and yes, I loop
through them all to fill them with data.
The loop itself isn't too complicated, the tricky part is parsing the xml
from database and converting it to a data structure with names matching the
fields in the PDF.
' -------- This is the loop going through the fields and matching them to
the parsed data in cData
Dim formFields As AcroFields = stamper.AcroFields
Dim ofield As New DictionaryEntry
For Each ofield In stamper.AcroFields.Fields
If cData.ItemExist(ofield.Key) Then
stamper.AcroFields.SetField(ofield.Key,
cData.Item(ofield.Key).Value)
End If
Next
stamper.Close()
' ----------
This of course requires that I know the names of the fields beforehand,
which I do since I created the PDF myself.
Perhaps the XFA solution is simpler, but as I said I'm no expert in XML and
this does the job.
Still interested in seeing your solution though! / Fredrik
2009/10/28 claud108 <claud...@yahoo.com>
>
> This will solve simple PDFs.
>
> For PDFs with more complicated form inside will be very hard to standardize
> the class you use.
> For instance, if you would have repetitive structures, as rows in a table,
> you would have to address each field, for instance in a loop, and so on ...
> Too complicated.
>
> This is why I said that using XFA is simple and elegant.
>
> Claudius
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