Leonard, thanx for your answer.
Does Adobe Acrobat Professional have an API?
Also, we will not be "receiving" forms, but rather programmatically creating
them.
Can you please be more precise as to where Acrobat Professional gets into the
equation regarding the 5 steps i mentioned?
Let me rewrite the steps, being more precise :
So ideally, we would like :
0) Our iText-based software (preferably on iText 1.3 : migration would be
painful at this stage) will create dynamically the fillable PDF forms and send
them over automatically by email (this all will be handled by a servlet (as
usual) which will create and send the PDFs via email)
1) the suppliers to get our request for quotation via email,
2) fill the form,
3) save it (by some way) (here i guess comes the hard part) and then
4) return it to us via email. Then
5) some iText program of ours will parse their filled-in forms and read their
prices/item (is it feasible as well?)
PS
I work on a FreeBSD box, maybe that's why i have small experience with all
those PDF related windows software...
Achilleas Mantzios
--- On Thu, 11/26/09, Leonard Rosenthol <lrose...@adobe.com> wrote:
From: Leonard Rosenthol <lrose...@adobe.com>
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Fillable and Saveable forms in PDF files
To: "'Post all your questions about iText here'"
<itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thursday, November 26, 2009, 2:15 PM
The only thing you will need to do is to purchase (assuming you
don’t have already have it) a copy of Adobe Acrobat Professional to “Reader
Enable” the forms for saving. ASSUMING that you never receive more than 500
copies of a given form. If you will be receiving more than 500, then you will
need to move to Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions Server.
Leonard
From: Achilleas Mantzios
[mailto:mantzios.ach...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 8:50 AM
To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [iText-questions] Fillable and Saveable forms in PDF files
Hi, sorry for posting twice (this time with a subject as
well :)
it is the first time i write to the list (pls include my address in the
reply),
although we are using successfully iText to produce dynamic PDFs since
version 1.01 (currently we are on 1.3).
My question could be considered more PDF-technology oriented rather than
exclusively iText oriented.
Now we have this situation:
We like to send requests for quotations to suppliers as fillable PDF forms,
while letting them,
fill the forms, and return those forms to us.
We don't want to have an online service for them to login to some server of
ours and enter the data there for two reasons:
1) mainly they don't want to do it (mess with foreign we sites), and not all
of them have unlimited and reliable internet access, which leaves us with
email as the only means of communication.
2) those forms can be regarded as "formal" documents as well, and a
printed copy of such a filled-in-by-them form could mean something by legal
terms, so the existence of the filled-in-by-them versions of the PDFs is very
welcome as well.
So ideally, we would like :
1) the suppliers to get our request for quotation via email,
2) fill the form,
3) save it (by some way) (here i guess comes the hard part) and then
4) return it to us via email. Then
5) some iText program of ours will parse their filled-in forms and read their
prices/item (is it feasible as well?)
I would like to ask, if the above scenario is feasible or not, and where are
the tricky parts of it.
We are willing to even buy the book! if that will show us some light into
this.
Thank you
Achilleas Mantzios
-----Inline Attachment Follows-----
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day
trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on
what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with
Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july
-----Inline Attachment Follows-----
_______________________________________________
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
Check the site with examples before you ask questions:
http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/
You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day
trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on
what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with
Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july
_______________________________________________
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
Check the site with examples before you ask questions:
http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/
You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
