gathering data and filling out PDF's

[Stacey Levine]

[Mike Andrews]

Yes, my company (me) have done this before. In general we've duplicated the
report in a reporting tool and then converted the report to PDF. I know
that Adobe (or is it Macromedia) has an SDK (for a cost) that should allow
you to programmatically fill out forms contained in the PDF. The cost
however was prohibitive especially given the learning curve for the SDK. I
also believe you can use the pro version of Adobe PDF to turn it into a form
and then use the SDK. There might be other SDK's out there that would work
as well.

For another project we used a PDF tool that would allow you to create PDF
documents from scratch with code. It had no designer (at least none I could
find) but for the particular use we had it worked quite well.
They have other tools so you might want to check them out:
http://www.dynamicpdf.com/

I hope this helps.

-Mike

On 4/26/07, Stacey Levine <***@musicforasong.com> wrote:
>
> I have just been given a requirement to build a system that will
> collect/verify data entry bits and then output a pdf. This is for
> healthcare sign up forms. Ideally, it would somehow fill out an
> existing pdf that we have been given by the insurance company. Has
> anyone done anything like this? Any recommended tools?
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
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>
> stacey
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[phil paxton]

On 4/26/07, Stacey Levine <***@musicforasong.com> wrote:
> I have just been given a requirement to build a system that will
> collect/verify data entry bits and then output a pdf. This is for
> healthcare sign up forms. Ideally, it would somehow fill out an
> existing pdf that we have been given by the insurance company. Has
> anyone done anything like this? Any recommended tools?

As mentioned, there is the SDK.

If you want to take a shot at something "free" -- but you'll have to
check for the licensing -- as in distributing of the resulting
product. Go to SourceForge.net and look for "PDF". There's a
PDFCreator which is a virtual printer, where the printed output is a
PDF at a location of your choice. The interface is in vanilla VB and
would be a little nicer if someone fixed the tab order. I don't know
how much time|effort to sort everything out would be productive in a
return, but it's a place to start.

phil

p.s.

There's over 5k hits if you search for just "PDFCreator" in usenet.
It'll mean more to you if you refine the filters on your own.

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