Can I make a website using javascript, that is able to fill in text in a PDF template?

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July 6, 2017
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Hi

I work at a company where we have 14 different restaurants, and all I wan't is to create a website, that the restaurant managers can log in to and create or edit their menu's

We have a graphic designer that makes all the templates, but they have to fill in the text using inCopy,inDesign or Word. Instead, I want him to be able to upload the template to a FTP server, and they can log in to a website, that I create in javascript and html, and plug in the new menu's.

Is that possible?

I hope someone is able to get me going 🙂

Thanks!

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try67

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Not quite. What you can do is add form fields that will allow the users to

enter information into the PDF file, but that's about it.

On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 1:14 PM, christofferw <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

christofferwAuthor

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Can you please elaborate?

If our graphical designer makes a file using inDesign, where he tells the document where to the text need to be placed. Would that work?

In the end, all I want is for our restaurants to be able to log on to a website, where they plug in some text in boxes that can be used to create fill out a PDF file

try67

Community Expert

The designer can add fillable form fields in InDesign, or it can be done later on in Acrobat.

Then the users will be able to fill them in using the free Adobe Reader.

It might be a good idea to also include a button to lock the fields, once they have been filled in.

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