Chuck Stratton wrote:
Hi,
I have several PDF forms I created in Adobe Designer. Students fill them
out and email back as an XML data file. I want to create a database in Base
and use the forms for data input. Is there anyway to convert/import the PDF
Forms and use them as forms in Base? Adobe Designer will let me save the
file as .pdf, .tds, or .xdp . They say .xdp is xml. I have saved one as
.xdp and opened in Base but I get script, and design view is not available.
Thanks,
Chuck S.
As far as I know, Base won't import XML files (perhaps a feature for a
future release since it shouldn't be too hard). However, you say that
the students "email back as an XML data file", so you should be able to
create a script to read the fields and create either a CSV file (i.e.
fields enclosed in quotes with a comma separating them) or a
fixed-length field text file (i.e. each field is padded with blanks to
always occupy a fixed amount of space.
You may want to do a search on converting XML to CSV - I'm pretty sure
there is more than one program that can do the trick.
Then you can open it with either Calc or Base and fix it up if you need.
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