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Topic: Re: Changing text field of an existing PDF (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) Developers, Msg: 31671
From: LeonardR
Date: 12/17/2001 04:23 PM

At 03:03 AM 12/17/2001 +1100, p-pdf-developer Listmanager wrote:
>I would like to use JavaServerPages(JSP) to take user input like "John"
>and change a text field in a PDF to the value that the user inputs like
>"Jane". I then want to save the new PDF file and send it to a printer.

OK. Will the text field be a real PDF form field, or simply a
"block of text"? What OS platform will you be deploying on, or does it
have to be "Pure Java"? Are you sending to a server-side printer or a
client-side printer?


>Is this possible?

Yes.


>Are there any free software for doing this?

Maybe. Depends on the answers to the above questions.


Leonard