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Topic: RE: Why no AddFormField in ActivePDFToolKit
Conf: (P-PDF) Beginners, Msg: 102530
From: jberkes
Date: 12/18/2003 05:42 AM

Student teachers have in class activities and out of class activities while learning to be teacher and there can be any number of activities. I have a coldfusion web application that populates a pdf using activetoolkit with the Student teachers name and all their activities. This student teacher name and activity data is stored in oracle. Since the toolkit does not create fields or forms on the fly I thought I’d create a pdf document with as many forms as I’d possibly need then only copy the ones I populated to the output file. The only problem I see with that is there needs to be specific information on the last form. So what I’ll end up with is several forms in the middle of the document that are blank and at the end the last form. So I may want to copy (0,4) plus the last form. Can I do that? Or maybe the last page could be a separate pdf document and I could merge it into other document that has the activities.

I came across the stuff about using javascript to spawn templates but since this is a web application I’d rather not have any logic in the pdf. Yesterday I was able to

Put some javascript code within the pdf to read the database and populate the form but maybe this process was designed for client rather than web. I plead ignorant.

Can someone point me in the right direction for purely web where client using the document will only have acrobat reader.