On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Carl Cerecke <[email protected]> wrote: > Look at flpsed with pdf2ps, ps2pdf > http://www.ecademix.com/JohannesHofmann/flpsed.html
Ahh yes I was trying to remember the name of that package. It would do the trick (with some backend stuff to remember the inputs), but it would be neater if it automatically recognised fillable form fields within an existing document. The documents I want to fill in already have fillable fields, its just that without any method of saving the contents of the fields, its a bit wasted. > > 2009/10/19 Nick Rout <[email protected]>: >> I have PDF forms that I want to populate with data. I want to be able >> to save the data and change it, and reprint the form with the updated >> data. >> >> An example of the forms is here: >> http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/pdf/DistrictCourtsRules/DCR-Form-2.pdf >> >> I don't want to have to buy full adobe acrobat at whatever inflated >> price it may be (not forgetting there are probably 7 people in the >> office needing to use these forms, and more if it becomes a generic >> solution to other problems). >> >> I envisage probably a web page which asks questions needed to populate >> the form - probably a standard LAMP arrangement. I can probably figure >> all that out, its getting the data into the PDF form which has fields >> etc generated by someone else that is the difficulty. >> >> I am aware of reportlab (python pdf api) >> http://www.reportlab.org/rl_toolkit.html . Figuring out how to use it >> in this context is another matter. >> >> Any tips or pointers would be valued highly. >> >
