Hi, I think you are right this is not a iText directly related subject, so in this context you may check IMHO with Adobe's LiveCycle Reader Extensions technology. It does what you want off the self, and then some. 1. The forms workflow can be offline (or online) 2. The forms are always synchronized and kept updated (Talking of Sales Order forms?) 3. The extended forms can be filled in with a simple Acrobat Reader by your clients (as you don't mention what tool they would have to buy and use). 4. the forms can be saved locally, printed locally by the Reader and later send to you in a number of ways
Why don't you get the published specs and see if this suits your company's needs? Of course you may develop another solution ... and this message is just my 2 cents George Achilleas Mantzios-2 wrote: > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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/ > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Fillable-and-Saveable-forms-in-PDF-files-tp26529715p26530465.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/
