Roger... you are and I are both stuck in the Windows world... On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Roger Eller <roger.e.el...@sealedair.com> wrote:
> 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
