Witango-Talk: HTML Form to PDF

2004-01-16 Thread webdude
I have asked this before, but am still having a devil of a time trying to figure out how to get started. I would like to take pre-existing PDF files of, let's say. business cards ot letterheads, with the art already in the PDF file, and have the user fill out an HTML form to input name,

Re: Witango-Talk: HTML Form to PDF

2004-01-16 Thread Bill Conlon
Well, I've done a lot of thinking about this issue over the years, and I've come to the conclusion that it is very hard to integrate with PDF via Acrobat. Adobe has done a good job of emasculating the APIs so you can get close but not exactly where you want to get. So there are two

Re: Witango-Talk: HTML Form to PDF

2004-01-16 Thread John McGowan
Bill, Have you ever used iText to build a PDF document? It's a free java PDF library... We're using it on a project right now http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ /John Bill Conlon wrote: Well, I've done a lot of thinking about this issue over the years, and I've come to the conclusion that

Re: Witango-Talk: HTML Form to PDF

2004-01-16 Thread Bill Conlon
John, Looks good. This dovetails with the next elements of our development. Right now we implement content management and print-on-demand in an intranet, and CSS2 works just fine for this. The next step of course is to allow people to email brochures to clients, and a PDF would one way to