Are you using ASP or PHP? PHP has libpdf that enables you to create pdf files on the fly. Never used it personally but heard of successful implementations, I believe that Acrobat Reader has a PDF activex that does the same thing for asp. The latter may not be available on your host though. Keep in mind that they usually won't accept installing activex stuff on their servers... Why won't a plain text file not do the trick? Or even an HTML file?
Paul | -----Original Message----- | From: wwwpages [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 9:59 AM | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: [wdvltalk] Output form data to pdf file | | | Hi guys, | | I have an online application form that is writing to a | database. All is swell there. However upon completing the | application form I'd like to then display (or email) the data | entered back to the user for them to print in a neatly formatted form. | | Now I already have the neatly formated form in pdf format | that I need to have the output look identical to, so I was | wondering how difficult is would be to somehow populate this | pdf file with my data fields for printing purposes?? Has | anyone done this type of thing before? Can you point me in | the direction of some good resources/references? | | This may be more a pdf question I guess, but I am also open | to other ideas on how best to get this data into a format | that replicates my pdf file. I don't really want to have to | spend hours writing HTML to get a replica, so that's why I'd | like to use my existing pdf file somehow. | | Any thoughts? | | Cheers | | Heath | | | | | ____ . The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM . ____ | To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Send Your Posts | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To set a personal password send an email to | [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK | pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change | subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: | http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub | | ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ | | You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to | %%email.unsub%% | | ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal password send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the words: "set WDVLTALK pw=yourpassword" in the body of the email. To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
