It’s a server-based software solution, yes. It’s not just a API or library.
You don’t need a database for just Reader Extensions.
Pricing varies based on your usage – you will need to speak to a sales person.
Leonard
From: Achilleas Mantzios [mailto:mantzios.ach...@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 1:42 PM
To: Post all your questions about iText here
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Fillable and Saveable forms in PDF files
While we are at it, i would like to ask George and Leonard the following:
I saw over the http://www.adobe.com/products/livecycle/readerextensions/ site
that
1) We are talking about a full blown server and not just a stateless,
non-persistent API.
2) Among the requirements i saw that one should have
SUSE (ok we have it)
JBoss (we have that as well), and
* IBM DB2, or
* Oracle, or
* Microsoft SQL Server, or
* MySQL
I mean we have the king of them all, PostgreSQL server, and we trust it as one
of the most valuable choices we ever made. We deployed PostgreSQL since 2001,
in 3 servers on shore and about 50+ servers at sea (unattended - no IP
connectivity) without a single problem up to now. So i dont see the point in
going to one of the aforementioned RDBMS's.
Do we have an option for PostgreSQL? Or we must install Mysql as well? (not a
big deal, anyway)
Also, i'd like to have an idea of the cost, learning curve, etc... of using
LSES2...
We will produce about a 100 fillable interactive PDFs per day, and we will be
receiving an equal amount of filled PDFs per day as well.
Achilleas Mantzios
--- On Thu, 11/26/09, George Bilalis <grg_b...@hotmail.com> wrote:
From: George Bilalis <grg_b...@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Fillable and Saveable forms in PDF files
To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Thursday, November 26, 2009, 4:29 PM
Hi,
One of the best features IMHO in the LCES workflow about readerExtension
Server and forms, is the functionality for the form originator to:
1. Recall (invalidate) a form that has been issued previously and a client
was handed. This applies if data in the form like Unit Item Price changed!
2. When the client connects again to the ReaderExtension Server his previous
form can be auto-synchronized, thus updated..!
This is immense help say, for Sales Order Forms, Stock Inventory Forms and
the like.
George
Achilleas Mantzios-2 wrote:
>
> 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</mc/compose?to=lrose...@adobe.com>> wrote:
>
> From: Leonard Rosenthol
> <lrose...@adobe.com</mc/compose?to=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</mc/compose?to=itext-questi...@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</mc/compose?to=mantzios.ach...@yahoo.com>]
>
> Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 8:50 AM
>
> To:
> itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net</mc/compose?to=itext-questi...@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
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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