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create forms with a textfile

elektriker
Registered: Sep 28 2010
Posts: 1

Hi,
I create electrical drawings with a CAD system. A PDF file of a project can contain ~1000 pages.
Now I have a customer who don't have the CAD system. For changings he wants to print out the relevant page, make the changings by hand, scan the page and save it in a project folder.
But he wants to have a form entry in the directory to write down the revisor and the new PDF filename.
The directory shows informations for every page. So I have ~ 2000 form entries to create.....
 
Is it possible to create the form with a script file (CSV?)like this:
 
PAGE,X,Y,WIDTH,HEIGHT,FORMTYPE,FORMNAME,TEXTSIZE
1,100,10,20,5,TEXTFIELD,"Name Revision 1",6
1,100,20,20,5,TEXTFIELD,"Date Revision 1",6
1,100,30,20,5,TEXTFIELD,"Name Revision 2",6
1,100,40,20,5,TEXTFIELD,"Date Revision 2",6
.
.
.
10,100,10,20,5,TEXTFIELD,"Name Revision 1000",6
10,100,20,20,5,TEXTFIELD,"Date Revision 1000",6
?
 
I hope it is understandable.
 
Thanks in advance
 
Andreas

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.2, Windows
try67
Expert
Registered: Oct 30 2008
Posts: 2398
Yes, it's possible to create a script that will read such a text file and create the form fields defined in it.
If you're interested, I can create it for you. You can contact me personally (see my signature) to discuss the details.

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