I didn't want to bore the thread with our intended solution but if it will help set the context that you need to be able to answer to the question then here you are:
1.)We are serving a web form to students who may or may not have Adobe Acrobat - hence the need for a web-based form. 2.)We need a complete "snapshot" of the form along with the student answers stored in our imaging system for government-required record keeping. 3.)The form has graphics, logos, etc and is formatted in a fairly precise manner. 4.)Our imaging system requires files to be in PDF or TIFF format. Based on your response, I'm guessing that we'd capture the data from the form submission and use it to populate a pre-built PDF using itext? Is that how it would function? Thank you. From: 1T3XT BVBA [mailto:i...@1t3xt.info] Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 3:16 PM To: Post all your questions about iText here Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Create a PDF from submission of a web form? On 05/25/2010 08:49 PM, Brandon Kaminsky wrote: can you tell me if the pdf creation from web-based forms can also include full-on formatting with images, text, etc. I have no idea what you are talking about. The form we want to convert to pdf on the fly is somewhat involved and precise - It's HTML that is posted to a server. How can that be involved and precise? That doesn't make any sense. If you need a precise form, create one with Open Office or Acrobat; then use iText to fill it. Why would you "convert to PDF" if you want it to be precise. Sounds like an idea of somebody who "fortunately didn't spend much time on research." and we would want to maintain that formatting along w/ the user-input data as precisely as possible (but in pdf form, of course). Please advise. If you want a precise form, serve it as a PDF. let the end user fill in the PDF, post it as FDF and store the FDFs (or fill out the form using the data in the FDF). Now please don't ask us what FDF means. ________________________________ Please Note: Due to Florida's very broad public records law, most written communications to or from College employees regarding College business are public records, available to the public and media upon request. Therefore, this email communication may be subject to public disclosure. ________________________________ Please consider the environment before printing this email.
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