SPUG: help with dynamic pdf forms

Dan Sabath dan at concolor.org
Tue Jul 15 02:15:30 CDT 2003


A quick search of CPAN (search.cpan.org) returns quite a few modules  
dealing with PDF.

This one seems to do what you want.

PDF::Reuse  
http://search.cpan.org/author/LARSLUND/PDF-Reuse-0.08/Reuse.pm
w/ tutorial
http://search.cpan.org/author/LARSLUND/PDF-Reuse-Tutorial-0.04/ 
Tutorial.pm

-dan

On Monday, July 14, 2003, at 12:08 PM, Alan wrote:

> Howdy folks.  I have a project coming up involving filling data into  
> PDF
> forms created by a design firm.  I'm pretty sure that this can be done,
> and hopefully relatively easily.
>
> Basically what I need to do is take user input and insert it into a
> pre-set position / form field in an already created static PDF.  I'm  
> not
> all that familiar with acrobat, but it has a "form field" tool that
> allows creation of text fields, checkboxes, etc.  All I need to do is
> take user input and stick it into those form fields (I only care about
> the text fields).
>
> Obviously creating the pdfs from scratch via PDF-Lib isn't an option.
> Can anyone point me at whatever the in vogue tool / library for this  
> is?
>
> Regards and thanks from up north
>
> alan




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