Re: FN-FORUM: Populating a PDF using PHP

date posted 1st June 2006 17:00

The way I did it was to re-create the documents from scratch. It's a
bit like hand coding a web page and deciding what to do with it next.
You can store it, open it or email it.

Mac T.Wheeler wrote:
> Sorry folks I may not have explained my problem fully.
>
> I have a set of standard PDF documents (think insurance key facts, policy
> wordings and suchlike) that need to be personalised by inserting data from
> the on-line application form into them before printing.
>
> I don't need to create the whole PDF, just insert a few data fields into
> them. Is this a possibility? Or would I have to take the route of creating
> the documents from scratch?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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>
> On 1 Jun 2006, at 14:52, Mac T.Wheeler wrote:
>
>> One of the projects I am working on requires an application form to be
>> filled in on the web and then a PDF needs to be printed with the data
>> from the application form imbedded in it.
>>
>> I've not tried this before, does anybody have a link to a how-to or
>> something similar please? Alternatively any advice would also be
>> welcome :)
>>
>
> There's a PHP class called ezpdf which I've been using for a while which you
> can use to build a pdf from scratch. I've found it pretty good. You can get
> it from here:
>
> http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ray
>
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