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Resolved Is there a way to fill a pdf form from PB?

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  3. Wednesday, 19 October 2022 18:16 PM UTC

Hello All,

We recently migrated to PB22. We normally just print a datawindow as a pdf, works great. We also occasionally use a Word template with bookmarks. We open the Word template, do a bunch of inserts into the bookmarks, then save the doc.

Is there a way to insert data into a pdf form from PB?

 

Thanks,
Dennis

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Chris Pollach @Appeon
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  1. Wednesday, 19 October 2022 18:57 PM UTC
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Hi Dennis;

  Do you mean an already created "Fill-able" PDF form?

Regards ... Chris

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  1. Wednesday, 19 October 2022 19:09 PM UTC
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Yes, the idea is that have a template on a drive somewhere with a handful of editable fields that we could open and populate those fields from PB.

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Chris Pollach @Appeon
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  2. Wednesday, 19 October 2022 20:11 PM UTC
Sounds like you just need to use the RichText DataWindow. Dealing directly with an already created PDF fill-able form would require interacting with Adobe as an "in process" server (aka OLE) object.

Instead, just load the RTE template of the document at run time into the DWO and then have the DWO populate the related column data for you. ;-)

https://docs.appeon.com/pb2019/pbug/ch29s02.html

HTH
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Roland Smith
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  1. Wednesday, 19 October 2022 19:41 PM UTC
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Look for a COM control that can display a PDF and has form handling methods.

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  1. Wednesday, 19 October 2022 19:45 PM UTC
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Roland, do you have ideas on where to find one?

Dennis

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