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Topic: Saving forms
Conf: (P-PDF) Forms & FDF, Msg: 68700
From: RaymondG
Date: 7/16/2002 02:12 AM

On 11/17/2001 9:57:00 AM, jporterlara wrote:
>Hi folks, it seems that my
>question has been answered
>many times over in this forum,
>but I want to make sure I am
>totally clear about my options
>for an upcoming project.
>
>In a client-server
>environment, I need to
>programmatically populate the
>fields of a PDF form with data
>stored in an MSSQL database,
>show the populated form, allow
>the user to make changes and
>additions, save the changes to
>the PDF form, and store that
>PDF in our database. A user
>must able to retrieve, edit,
>and re-save the stored copy of
>this document.
>
>It is my boss' goal to allow
>the user to accomplish this
>only using Reader -- he would
>prefer not to require our
>clients to have the full
>version of Acrobat or Approval
>on the desk top.
>
>From what I have read in this
>forum, I gather that that
>doing what I described using
>Reader only would not comply
>with Adobe's licensing
>restrictions.
>
>So - what about this concept
>of 'submitting' the data to
>the server in FDF format,
>processing the data into a
>pdf, and then sending the
>populated pdf form back to the
>user? I seem to recall reading
>that this too would be
>considered a violation of the
>Acrobat licensing restrictions
>- is this true? If this is the
>case, I'd appreciate it if
>someone could point me to the
>clause in the licensing
>agreement that prohibits this.
>
>One more question: How is it
>that third party applications
>(for example, RapiDocs
>http://www.rapidocs.com) that
>do the exact things I need to
>do have been able to do so?
>
>Thanks in advance for your
>replies...
>
>Jami


Jami,

Take a look at Amgraf's OneForm Designer Plus' PDF Generator Option, (www.amgraf.com/pages/iforms.html). This allows data to save/retrieve to the server DB using only Acrobat Reader. Data can also be interchangable w/ HTML version form for local save if needed. Contact me if you need details.

Raymond Garner,
Amgraf, Inc.