Not sure if this helps: We have an old verion of the Adobe Acrobat Pro (6.0).
If you have a locked pdf, you can: File | Create PDF | from File or from Multiple file, Scanner, Web page. then you can put textboxes or whatever to create a form from your new pdf. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jarvis, Matthew" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 1:39 PM Subject: [NF] Adobe FDF merge to PDF I give up..... before I start throwing computers at things I thought I'd toss this one out there on the one-in-a-billion chance someone has some ideas... I am using this as a guide: http://www.15seconds.com/issue/990902.htm You can do a data merge into a PDF file similar to the mail merge in Word. You just need to have the Adobe FDF Toolkit and register some DLL's, but it's pretty straightforward as it turns out. As a test, I downloaded the W4 form from the IRS website (because my example webpage was working with it), created my HTML page for data entry, the ASP page to manipulate the form and stuff in the value for the field(s), and it works. Proof of concept done for my forms project - yippee... So I took one of our real forms done in Word, converted it into a PDF (after downloading trial version of Adobe LifeCycle), put in textboxes where the highlighted fields were in the original.... I'll be darned if I can now get this thing to update with my data from the HTML page. I suspect that the W4 form has a property set at the form level that allows it to be updatable (such as Dynamic XML option) but I've messed with that and other properties to no avail.... I am now officially brain dead and exhausted from reading endless webpages that never address what my problem might be... Can someone who is familiar with this gimme a hand, or come bludgeon me please??? <g> Thanks, Matthew Jarvis || Business Systems Analyst IT Department McKenzie-Willamette Medical Center 1460 G Street, Springfield, OR 97477 || Ph: 541-744-6092 || Fax: 541-744-6145 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer: This electronic message may contain information that is Proprietary, Confidential, or legally privileged or protected. It is intended only for the use of the individual(s) and entity named in the message. If you are not an intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete the material from your computer. Do not deliver, distribute or copy this message and do not disclose its contents or take any action in reliance on the information it contains. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/01f201cb7d49$36206b50$7a00a...@w2k3s02 ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
