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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by David Wall <d....@computer.org> on 2004/11/23 17:29:44 UTC
OFF TOPIC: Merging data into a PDF form
I have an existing PDF form (actually lots of them) and my webapp is
querying a user for the "missing data" on the HTML form. I'd like to merge
the POST data into the PDF document and end up with a new filled out PDF
document. Has anybody done this or can point to tools that will help?
Thanks,
David
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Re: OFF TOPIC: Merging data into a PDF form
Posted by Richard <ri...@gmail.com>.
Sorry.What I meant was Its suppose to be comptible with Struts
They say its working okay
> with cocoon.
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:59:49 +0800, Richard <ri...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Im not sure if this is a good option. A framework I have used before
> can serialized all html data into pdf files. They say its working okay
> with cocoon. Its up to you if you want to check it out.
>
> Apache Cocoon. http://cocoon.apache.org/2.0/
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:29:44 -0800, David Wall <d....@computer.org> wrote:
> > I have an existing PDF form (actually lots of them) and my webapp is
> > querying a user for the "missing data" on the HTML form. I'd like to merge
> > the POST data into the PDF document and end up with a new filled out PDF
> > document. Has anybody done this or can point to tools that will help?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David
> >
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Re: OFF TOPIC: Merging data into a PDF form
Posted by Richard <ri...@gmail.com>.
Hi David,
Im not sure if this is a good option. A framework I have used before
can serialized all html data into pdf files. They say its working okay
with cocoon. Its up to you if you want to check it out.
Apache Cocoon. http://cocoon.apache.org/2.0/
Richard
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:29:44 -0800, David Wall <d....@computer.org> wrote:
> I have an existing PDF form (actually lots of them) and my webapp is
> querying a user for the "missing data" on the HTML form. I'd like to merge
> the POST data into the PDF document and end up with a new filled out PDF
> document. Has anybody done this or can point to tools that will help?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
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Re: OFF TOPIC: Merging data into a PDF form
Posted by er...@swapsimple.com.
> On Tuesday 23 November 2004 18:29, David Wall wrote:
> > I have an existing PDF form (actually lots of them) and my webapp is
> > querying a user for the "missing data" on the HTML form. I'd like to merge
> > the POST data into the PDF document and end up with a new filled out PDF
> > document. Has anybody done this or can point to tools that will help?
I don't know about doing this in java, but if you can use then there
are some libraries available for doing stuff like this.
Take a look at PDF::Reuse.
eric
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Re: OFF TOPIC: Merging data into a PDF form
Posted by Quinton Delpeche <qu...@vippayroll.co.za>.
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 18:29, David Wall wrote:
> I have an existing PDF form (actually lots of them) and my webapp is
> querying a user for the "missing data" on the HTML form. I'd like to merge
> the POST data into the PDF document and end up with a new filled out PDF
> document. Has anybody done this or can point to tools that will help?
Hi,
I don't know about merging, but my application generates and HTML file and
uses a linux utility (html2ps) to convert this to Postscript.
Then depending on wether the user selects and e-mail address or fax number
will convert the PS toPDF file using another linux utility (ps2pdf) and
e-mail it to the user or send the PS file directly to our fax server.
Basically I create a mini-shell script on the server at run-time that looks
like this:
FileOutputStream fisScript = new FileOutputStream(filScript, false);
PrintWriter pwrScript = new PrintWriter(fisScript);
pwrScript.write("#!/bin/bash\n");
pwrScript.write("/usr/bin/html2ps -U -O -o " + strPSFileName + " " +
strHTMLFileName + "\n");
pwrScript.write("/usr/bin/ps2pdf " + strPSFileName + " " + strTempPDFFileName
+ "\n");
pwrScript.write("/bin/mv " + strTempPDFFileName + " " + strPDFFileName + "");
pwrScript.close();
I then create a command string variable:
String strCommand = "/bin/bash /data/intsys/training/invoice/" + strLedgerID +
".sh";
I then execute the script using this:
Process ls_procPS = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(strCommand);
Works like a charm. :)
Just make sure that the user that tomcat runs as (wwwrun pre 5) or (tomcat
post 5) has read and write access to the relevant directories.
I use a similar principal when the user wants to view the file instead, all
that I do is generate the PDF and then redirect the browser to the location
of the PDF.
> Thanks,
> David
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Re: OFF TOPIC: Merging data into a PDF form
Posted by Parsons Technical Services <pa...@earthlink.net>.
http://www.lowagie.com/iText/faq.html#template
Doug,
www.parsonstechnical.com
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>I have an existing PDF form (actually lots of them) and my webapp is
> querying a user for the "missing data" on the HTML form. I'd like to
> merge
> the POST data into the PDF document and end up with a new filled out PDF
> document. Has anybody done this or can point to tools that will help?
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
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