Fillable Forms that Generate Different PDF

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
November 5, 2024
2 replies
406 views

Hello,

I've searched for tutorials or a similar disscussion, but haven't found anything. I apologize in advance if there are tutorials on this and I'm not using Google at a high enough level.

I would like to create a fillable form that generates different PDFs based off the information you enter into it. So someone could fill out essentially a questionaire and at the end Adobe would generate a separate PDF that is a list of documents I need from them based off of the information they've entered into my fillable form.

Is this possible or am I going to manually be creating these lists forever? Any help would be greatly appriciated.

This topic has been closed for replies.

PDF Automation Station

Community Expert

You can create template pages and hide them. They will be spawned (copies created and added as new pages) based on information completed (checklist?). This tutorial (with video) walks you through the process:

https://pdfautomationstation.substack.com/p/check-boxes-that-show-and-hide-pdf

S

Semi-Tech-SavvyAuthor

Participant

Thank you a million times over! I learned computer programming in high school, but that was about 10 years ago. It's safe to say I've forgotten most of that skill.

Thom Parker

Community Expert

It sounds like you want to implement a workflow where

1. A PDF form is sent to a recipient.

2. Recipient fills the PDF and sends it back to you.

3. Some kind of script is run that uses the filled info to create a list of documents in PDF form.

This is entirely possible. I assume you know how to implement steps one and two?

There are a few ways to implement step 3, assuming that you already have a clear path from the entered data to selecting specific documents.

1. Use a page template in the original form to add pages to the form with the document list.

2. Use a separate PDF as the list doc, which is filled by a script on the separate PDF.

3. Use an automation script to generate a new PDF using the Report object.

In the cases of #1 and #2 the list of documents is really just entries in large list field on the page template.

Thom Parker - Software Developer at PDFScriptingUse the Acrobat JavaScript Reference early and often

S

Semi-Tech-SavvyAuthor

Participant

Thank you for this! I'm new to Acrobat and it's a very useful program.

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded