PDF automation

BoB,

There are softwares available for converting HTML pages to PDF or PostScripts format.
One that I know is HTMLDOC :
  http://www.easysw.com/htmldoc

Hope this helps.

Aman

Actually, I already have a PDF file with form fields that I have created with Acrobat.  I would like to populate the fields of the form (say from a database) and then print out the form (or provide it via a hyperlink) with the appropriate information.

BoB

Look at PDF::API2.  I'm not sure it will let you do what you want and the documentation is definitely lacking in places, but it is the best PDF manipulation module I've found.

There is a program called pdfmodify (http://www.sanface.com/pdfmodify.html) which inputs a pdf file as a template, puts text on it and then outputs a new pdf with the merged data. It is a commercial product, but not too expensive and they seem good about trial versions.

Apparently the fields of a PDF file can be exported into an XML text file.  The format of this file is pretty straight-forward to follow and will allow me to provide a template PDF with the fields filled with different information based on the XML file.

BoB

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