ouch: the beginning of the end

[Richmond Mathewson]

I think Dr Hawkins wants to enter data into the PDF documents rather 
than either view them
or extract data from them.

Richmond.

On 3/3/17 6:55 pm, Heather Laine via use-livecode wrote:
> Its likely I'm being dense here... but does the PDF viewer not meet your needs?
>
> https://livecode.com/products/livecode-platform/pdf-viewer/ <https://livecode.com/products/livecode-platform/pdf-viewer/>
>
> Regards,
>
> Heather
>
> Heather Laine
> Customer Services Manager
> LiveCode Ltd
> www.livecode.com
>
>> On 3 Mar 2017, at 15:24, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Alejandro Tejada via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have used LiveCode (then MetaCard) to write content
>>> in PDF templates, so I do not understand the requirement
>>> that file should have no changes.
>>>
>> The file I upload needs to be indistinguishable from the pdf the court
>> issues to fill in at any arbitrary density.
>>
>> At the moment, I'm simply recreating by pasting into fields.  What *should* be
>> happening is placing fields over an eps made from the court's own pdf.
>>
>> This particular form was the breaking point:
>> http://www.nvb.uscourts.gov/downloads/mmm/forms/NVB105-3_OrderDebtorsMtnReferraltoMMM.pdf
>>
>> I have created paragraph by paragraph, but I now have a clerk insisting
>> that it be this exact pdf--so I have to go back to my original plan.  With
>> livecode, this *should* happen by turning it into page by page eps's,
>> putting each on a card, and laying fields over them, and then "printing" to
>> a pdf file.
>>
>> Unfortunately, due to the lack of eps support, the only possible way is to
>> make png's, put the fields in front of those, delete the png when printing,
>> and then use shell tools (pdftk, pdfjar, pdftools, etc.)  to overlay each
>> page of my livecode output onto the form pdf.
>>
>> This is fairly straightforward on unix (mac, linux).  However, I need to
>> insure that the third party software is installed, and for good measure,
>> support at least two ways of doing it.
>>
>> Windows?  beats me.
>>
>> iOS?  I'd be shocked if the tools are there.  I'd have to license the code.
>>
>> android?  beats me again.
>>
>> But all in all, I've lost "write once".
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
>> (702) 508-8462
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