Merging PDF files through LC

[Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel]

Roger... you are and I are both stuck in the Windows world...

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com>
wrote:

> That sounds like a pretty slick way to populate a form (hoping it works
> x-plat).  The OP wants a >Windows< solution to combine pages though.
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com>
> wrote:
>
> > The easy way to do this is to assemble an FDF data file. I have already
> > done this in my Forms Generator application. First, I export the form
> data.
> > To get all the fields even the empty ones you have to create a javascript
> > action, because the built in data export only exports fields with data in
> > them, but the javascript command has an argument for overcoming this.
> Next
> > you configure your PDF to read the FDF file when it opens. Finally you
> > figure out how to manipulate the data file so you can fill in the field
> > data.
> >
> > My Forms Generator does all of that for me now. But there is a way I was
> > playing with, on the Mac only so far, to tell Applescript to tell Acrobat
> > to run a javascript, in which case you can do anything their Acrobat
> > Javascript API allows in the given security context.
> >
> > Bob S
> >
> >
> > On Sep 30, 2014, at 20:01 , Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel <
> > skip at magicgate.com<mailto:skip at magicgate.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Getting it to work, probably not that hard.  Distributing it with your
> > application, that's a whole other issue.  I have been looking over the
> > command line options for this and it is pretty powerful.  One feature
> that
> > stands out the most to me is the ability to send form data to the PDF
> > file.  Something I have wanted but LC has yet to be able to supply a
> > streamlined way of doing this.
> >
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