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[CF8] Filling out already-made PDFs

New Here ,
Nov 12, 2008 Nov 12, 2008
Everything my office has heard about the new features of CF8 sound wonderful. One of the main things we're excited about is the PDF features, but after reading the information on the product page we're still a bit confused about whether it will do something we desperately need.

We have an exceedingly long PDF application form that's already been created with fields and such. People currently enter their information online where it's saved to a database as they go (over the course of several pages to make it more manageable) and, at the end, an FDF file is generated that fills in the form with information from the database. The problem with this is 1) they have to be online for it to work, 2) sometimes people with Firefox are just presented with an FDF file that they have no idea what to do with, and 3) some people have started getting this error.

Will CF8 allow for the populating of the already-created PDF with the database data, with no FDF in-between and no other program (like LiveCycle) needed? I'm trying to talk my boss into an upgrade and this would definitely be the selling point.
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LEGEND ,
Nov 12, 2008 Nov 12, 2008
Cyborgirl wrote:

> Will CF8 allow for the populating of the already-created PDF with the database
> data, with no FDF in-between and no other program (like LiveCycle) needed? I'm
> trying to talk my boss into an upgrade and this would definitely be the selling
> point.
>

Yes, it will also work *with* the FDF format as well.

A couple of references.
Part one of a eight part series:
http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2007/7/9/ColdFusion-8-Working-with-PDFs-Part-1

http://www.forta.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/7/27/cf_pdfform

http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=Tags_p-q_03.html
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New Here ,
Nov 12, 2008 Nov 12, 2008
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Hallelujah! Thanks so much for those links.
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