Merging PDF files through LC

[Roger Eller]

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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