Programmatic form filling - How?

[wendellf]

I've been told my company has an Enterprise license for "PDF-XChange Viewer ActiveX SDK". We are evaluating using for one of our use cases to replace an existing tool (ActivePDF Toolkit). Below are the features that we have to perform to meet our use cases and I was wondering if this was possible using this tool?

1) Open a PDF form and programmatically retrieve the list of form fields and their names.

2) Open a PDF form and programmatically set all form field contents using the form field names.

3) After filling the form data, flatten the PDF and save it under a different name.

This has to be done from C# and VB6 (although we can do a COM wrapper from C# if needed to support the VB cases). All of this needs to be accomplished with no UI elements. We have two use cases for these features:

1) retrieve a set of records from our database for a group of individuals and create a PDF for each of these individuals by filling the form data from the database records and saving a flattened, individual PDF for each individual. This is done in with a batch application and can produce between 500 and 100,000 PDFs in a given run.

2) Same as the first only it is for a single individual and the resulting PDF will be streamed back to a browser.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Vasyl - PDF-XChange]

Hi, wendellf.

1) Open a PDF form and programmatically retrieve the list of form fields and their names.
2) Open a PDF form and programmatically set all form field contents using the form field names.

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for ( var i=0; i < this.numFields; i++) 
{
     var fname = this.getNthFieldName(i);
     var f = this.getField(fname);
     ... 
     f.value = newValue;
}

3) After filling the form data, flatten the PDF and save it under a different name.

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this.flattenPages();
this.saveAs("/c/temp.temp.pdf");

For more info about JS:
http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/ ... erence.pdf

1) retrieve a set of records from our database for a group of individuals and create a PDF for each of these individuals by filling the form data from the database records and saving a flattened, individual PDF for each individual. This is done in with a batch application and can produce between 500 and 100,000 PDFs in a given run.
2) Same as the first only it is for a single individual and the resulting PDF will be streamed back to a browser.

In my opinion - in both cases for the server side you must implement your own application-wrapper that may embed our ActiveX control and provide special communication method between your app. and web-service...

Best
Regards.