Re: [PHP-DB] How to use PHP to fill in existing pdf document

2010-05-01 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Just a thought, You may be able to instead of having them download, just display it as a html page and the fields will be there, then attach a PHP mail script to it somehow with a macro or something to that effect. Have it call on this php script to send the message and/or store in the datab

Re: [PHP-DB] How to use PHP to fill in existing pdf document

2010-05-01 Thread Karl DeSaulniers
Hi Ron, I have done this once before and what I had to do was let the user download the pdf that had the fields in it, they fill in the fields and email the pdf back, right from acrobat. In the pdf, you set the fields to lock after they finish and submit. You can also have them sign the docu

Re: [PHP-DB] How to use PHP to fill in existing pdf document

2010-05-01 Thread listread
Yes, I've looked hard at fdpf and see how it is used to generate a new pdf, but I need to simply fill in the form fields in an existing pdf. If it can do that, I'm not finding the feature Thanks, - Ron On 5/1/2010 7:43 PM, Gary wrote: "listread" wrote in message news:4bdc9ced.3060...@c

Re: [PHP-DB] How to use PHP to fill in existing pdf document

2010-05-01 Thread Gary
"listread" wrote in message news:4bdc9ced.3060...@cze.com... > Yes, we can first ask the user to fill in a form, but then comes the part > I don't understand - how to covert it to pdf. > > It would be best if we could just fill in the fields on an existing form, > but it would also work to p

Re: [PHP-DB] How to use PHP to fill in existing pdf document

2010-05-01 Thread Kesavan Rengarajan
Search for pdflib or fpdf. They help you with generating PDF files from a php script. Sent from my iPhone On 02/05/2010, at 7:28 AM, listread wrote: Yes, we can first ask the user to fill in a form, but then comes the part I don't understand - how to covert it to pdf. It would be best if

Re: [PHP-DB] How to use PHP to fill in existing pdf document

2010-05-01 Thread listread
Yes, we can first ask the user to fill in a form, but then comes the part I don't understand - how to covert it to pdf. It would be best if we could just fill in the fields on an existing form, but it would also work to print the printer friendly form to the server's printer queue, which could

Re: [PHP-DB] How to use PHP to fill in existing pdf document

2010-05-01 Thread nagendra prasad
I am not sure if this works for your project but you can first ask user to fill the form in PHP and then convert it into PDF. What say?

[PHP-DB] How to use PHP to fill in existing pdf document

2010-05-01 Thread listread
Greetings PHP gurus! Does anyone know of a way to use PHP to fill in the form fields in an existing pdf document residing on the server? We want the end result to be the creation of a unique pdf document for each visitor which can either be emailed or stored in a directory on the server. W