That sounds like a pretty slick way to populate a form (hoping it works x-plat). The OP wants a >Windows< solution to combine pages though.
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com> wrote: > The easy way to do this is to assemble an FDF data file. I have already > done this in my Forms Generator application. First, I export the form data. > To get all the fields even the empty ones you have to create a javascript > action, because the built in data export only exports fields with data in > them, but the javascript command has an argument for overcoming this. Next > you configure your PDF to read the FDF file when it opens. Finally you > figure out how to manipulate the data file so you can fill in the field > data. > > My Forms Generator does all of that for me now. But there is a way I was > playing with, on the Mac only so far, to tell Applescript to tell Acrobat > to run a javascript, in which case you can do anything their Acrobat > Javascript API allows in the given security context. > > Bob S > > > On Sep 30, 2014, at 20:01 , Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel < > s...@magicgate.com<mailto:s...@magicgate.com>> wrote: > > Getting it to work, probably not that hard. Distributing it with your > application, that's a whole other issue. I have been looking over the > command line options for this and it is pretty powerful. One feature that > stands out the most to me is the ability to send form data to the PDF > file. Something I have wanted but LC has yet to be able to supply a > streamlined way of doing this. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
