Gosh Ted - that's a "Nice" thought! Correct - its not really a VFP project. Just need a way to get data from Excel onto a PDF form that is already digitally signed.
Not sure how I gave you the idea my co. here is Cheap. Hmmm... They are a very professional co. in a fancy building here at the bottom of Manhattan. So - nope - they aren't cheap. If they need to purchase a tool to do it - then they will. There were instructions online - but, it turns out it was a bit BS - since it claims it could only do 1 doc at a time. Thus - if I have 1000 records in the Excel file - I would have to do the process 1000 times - which, yeah - is total BS. Hard to believe someone actually posted that answer as a reply to someone else with an almost Identical request to mine! I'm going to look into the CodePlex thing right now... Regards, Kurt Wendt Senior Systems Analyst Tel. +1-212-747-9100 www.GlobeTax.com -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2017 6:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NF] URGENT Request - MailMerge w/PDF On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Kurt Wendt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Any thoughts on this?? > Thoughts? Boy, are you in trouble! Okay, so [NF] means Not Fox, so you don't want to hear about the 42 ways to do this in VFP. The CodePlex code may be worth trying out; some of the people on their forum report it works for them. It seems to me you're looking at the classic IT conundrum: Fast, cheap, accurate: pick two. If you want it fast and accurate, it won't be cheap. If you want it cheap and accurate, it won't get done fast. If you want it cheap and fast, it won't be accurate. And IIRC, your employer is big on cheap. And fast. So... Otherwise, you're looking at a specialized tool. Years ago, I worked with a client that used OmniForm (now from ScanSoft) to mail merge their internal data onto government-supplied forms. ScanSoft may have a solution for you, although I'm not familiar with their current product lines. Adobe are the people who invented PDF, and likely have some tools that would work for you. If this truly is a one-off job, and not a "we'll ask you to do this every 6 months, as an emergency," it might be cheaper to search for an Adobe professional who could bang this out. Searching online, it seems like a lot of Adobe products can mail merge via ODBC, which is likely what you want. Random surfing turned up: https://www.evermap.com/automailmerge.asp, no idea if it works, but $149 is reasonable. I thought there was a way to do this using CutePDFPro; I've used it to create the data-fillable PDF form templates, but I don't see a solution that includes merge-from-database. Good luck! [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/80838f1ca795b14ea1af48659f35166f18ffa...@drexch02.corp.globetax.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
