Re: PDF Form Filling alternate in MS-Word???

2010-02-05 Thread denstar
RTF is a plain-text format, so theoretically you can just put something like *FIRSTNAME* where you want it to appear, save it as RTF, and then do a search and replace for *FIRSTNAME* on that RTF, and then serve the result. :den -- Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; rememb

Re: PDF Form Filling alternate in MS-Word???

2010-02-04 Thread Arsalan Tariq Keen
k" Subject: Re: PDF Form Filling alternate in MS-Word??? > > I have done this in the past using RTF format. About 1/2 way into it I > wish > I hadn't. It can be very tedious for large forms. You can try saving the > document in .xml format but Word's XML parser is VERY

Re: PDF Form Filling alternate in MS-Word???

2010-02-04 Thread Jake Churchill
You could check out the apache POI project. Not sure how much support they'll have for this sort of thing. You still might have to insert markers to look for (i.e. replace $$VAR1$$ with the contents of your first variable or something like that). Here's the link: http://poi.apache.org/ -Jake

Re: PDF Form Filling alternate in MS-Word???

2010-02-04 Thread Gerald Guido
I have done this in the past using RTF format. About 1/2 way into it I wish I hadn't. It can be very tedious for large forms. You can try saving the document in .xml format but Word's XML parser is VERY picky and I never got it to work right. Hence the RTF approach. Basically I saved the document

PDF Form Filling alternate in MS-Word???

2010-02-03 Thread Arsalan Tariq Keen
Dear Experts, I want to know is there any way I can auto-fill my word documents with specific data at specific locations using ColdFusion. I have done this using PDF Forms, where I used to add texfields and then later populate them using CF. Is there anyway to achieve this using CF + MS-Word??