Previous | Next | (P-PDF) Forms & FDF
Topic: Re: Developing Win98 application
Conf: (P-PDF) Forms & FDF, Msg: 63800
From: LeonardR
Date: 5/29/2002 06:07 PM
At 4:53 PM -0400 9/24/00, p-pdf-forms Listmanager wrote:
>I'm new to acrobat development so thanks to anyone who can give me
>some tips or guidance on the following. I distribute a Windows
>consumer accounting package, which generates data for various
>federal tax forms. I'd like to give my users the ability to print
>the forms, filled with their data, in submission-ready quality. Of
>course, the pdf format is perfect for this task. My software is
>written in VB 6. My understanding of the FDF SDK is that the
>ActiveX version can only be used under the Windows NT environment.
>(Unfortunately, I'm not a C+ programmer). I develop under the
>Windows 98 environment (the same as that of most of my users). In
>fact, I have been unable to register the "FdfAcX.dll" on my system
>registry without generating an error. I know that I can use the
>ActivePDF ocx to accomplish my objective, but I do not like all the
>extra "weight" (not to mention cost), particularly if I can access
>the Acrobat API myself. I'd appreciate any suggestions or
>guidances. Thanks.
>
I suggest you ignore the FDF SDK and it's ActiveX component
all together an go check out the PDFToolkit from ActivePDF
(). It's a COM/ActiveX component that lets
you work directly with PDF files, including filling in form fields.
Leonard
--
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Leonard Rosenthol
Sr. Software Engineer (215) 922-3509 (voice)
Digital Applications (215) 440-0504 (fax)
PGP Fingerprint: 8CC9 8878 921E C627 0BC1 15BB FC19 64A9 0016 1397
