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Topic: Re: Changing text field of an existing PDF
Conf: (P-PDF) Developers, Msg: 31672
From: cnordvik
Date: 12/17/2001 06:25 PM

I can use C, C++, Visual Basic, Javascript or java for the solution. To describe my problem in a little more detail:

Lets say that I have a standard letter where at the top left I have a persons name, address and email. This is in a pdf format. The information can be in a special font like "Garamond". Then a user visits the web page and then he gets a standard html form which he fills out with his name and he posts the form to the server. The server takes the information puts it into the pdf file(changes the information already there) and stores the new pdf file on the server(or sends it to the printer at the server side). The new information will also be in Garamond and in the same position.

The most important point here is that I need to have control over font, font size and positioning.

This is an entirely new system and I can use the technology that is easiest to implement it with. Most likely it will be a server running windows.

Hope this helps clarify my problem.

-Christer


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