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Fillable PDF

TedRyberg — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 00:54:00 GMT

Hello all,
Spent a good portion of the day googling, but not getting any clear answers. I see a lot of talk about various ways to read PDFs, but what about interacting?
I have several projects where writing to a fillable PDF would greatly speed up the overall process. I acknowledge it may increase development time, but would think, the end process would run faster.
Thoughts?

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Ted
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RE: Fillable PDF

GopalBhaire — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 10:02:00 GMT

It's better to create a VBO using PDFClown or PDFBox .NET if you have quite a lot of form filling to do.

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Gopal Bhaire
Analyst
Accenture
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RE: Fillable PDF

kkazantsev — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 12:23:00 GMT

Havent' done it, but perhaps there're a few ways to try:
1. Save PDF as Word > Use Word VBO to make updates > Save Word as PDF. Not elegant but should work
2. Try to interact directly with PDF if you have a license to edit PDF in place
3. Get a dll allowing to PDF interaction and build VBO on top of it

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Konstantin Kazantsev
Solutions Architect
Church and Dwight
America/New_York
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RE: Fillable PDF

ViktorKral — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:16:00 GMT

Much better solution is to have a word template, fill what you need/overwrite and export to PDF.

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Viktor Kral
Analyst
EY
Europe/Prague
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