Mark,
Adobe has a class called the FDF tookit that you can use.
You have to add it to the classpath. They have a couple of examples on
their web site.
The command to set a value is:
doc.SetValue("A157","NEW BRUNSWICK",false);
The "A157" is a named field.
"New Brunswick" is the value.
false is a flag.
// define
import com.adobe.fdf.*;
// initialize
private FDFTK THE_FDFTK;
public void init(ServletConfig config) throws ServletException{
super.init(config);
THE_FDFTK = new FDFTK();
THE_FDFTK.FDFTKInit();
then you do something like this:
public void toPost (HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
throws ServletException, IOException {
try {
FDFDoc doc = new FDFDoc();
doc.SetFile("http://localhost/SF86Form.pdf";);
doc.SetValue("A157","NEW BRUNSWICK",false);
} catch (FDFException e) {
/*PrintWriter toClient = res.getWriter();
toClient.println("Caught FDF exception");
toClient.println(e.toString());
toClient.close();
*/
}
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From: Mark Galbreath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 11:22 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]%internet
Subject: PDF Manipulation
Yeah, I back - in a way (in digest mode); the J2EE list sucks. ;-)
Anyway, I've got a problem that, from a thorough review of the ARCHIVES :-)
I know has been addressed by Nic and others over the past couple of years,
but none directly to my issue.
I have one solution to a problem domain that requires Java to dynamically
create PDFs from an online form. In this particular case, these are legal
forms displayed as a PDF template that an attorney fills out, and on
submit/print the data is concurrently stored in a database and transformed
into a PDF document for printing. As part of this solution, a query to the
database will also result in the dynamic creation of a PDF for
display/print/modification. I've seen no solution whatsoever that can
dynamically manipulate PDFs (user input changing data), and specifically, no
Java solution. And, of course, my idea is a servlet or servlet group that
would be doing this.
It's hard for me to imagine that server-side dynamic manipulation of PDFs
has not been an issue before, so somebody clue me in. One of my colleagues
says he thought he saw a free/shareware servlet that did this at jars.com,
but I can't find it.
Thanks, and cheers!
Mark
(yeah, I missed you, too, *sniff, snif*)
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