Hi, You might want to check podofo/test/FormTest. This tests shows how to create PDFs with forms, but reading existing forms and changing should works similar.
PoDoFo's form field support is not yet complete, but modifying text fields and
check boxes should work very well. For comboboxes some extensions might be
needed.
best regadds,
Dom
Am Montag, 24. August 2009 schrieb Craig Ringer:
> On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 21:43 -0700, Jeff Dunlap wrote:
> > 1) I have not yet installed PoDoFo. Do you or someone else happen to
> > know if PoDoFo will update the object definitions and binary data
> > automatically when I set field data?
>
> I haven't investigated PoDoFo's PDF field support (it's in a part of the
> library I've never had any need to learn about or work on), but I'm
> guessing "no".
>
> PoDoFo is a low level library designed to give you access to the PDF
> document structure so you can do almost whatever you want with it ... if
> you know enough about PDF and what you want to do. It's not good for
> canned "just do this for me" solutions.
>
> > 2) Or do you think it is best to avoid trying to modify the PDF and
> > instead focus on learning how to modify FDF and XFDF data files instead?
>
> Again, you're asking the wrong person I'm afraid. I haven't done much
> with PDF forms.
>
> Please reply to the list, not just to me.
>
> > My objective is to fill out PDFs programmatically on the webserver and
> > have them accessible over the web for viewing, saving and printing to the
> > local user’s PC.
>
> Start with Google. There are tools out there designed to do just what
> you want - or at least part of it. Why roll your own?
>
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