Merging PDF files through LC

[Bob Sneidar]

It works on Windows too. Just remember to save the PDF form as extended, otherwise Acrobat Reader users will not be able to fill the forms. I can send you some snippets so you can see how it’s done if you like. Contact me on private.

Bob S


On Oct 1, 2014, at 08:10 , Roger Eller <roger.e.eller at sealedair.com<mailto: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<mailto: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><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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