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pre-populating an Acrobat form (PDF) from Access or Excel

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2008-09-11 13:31:23
mmms
Registered: Sep 11 2008
Posts: 2

How do you populate a form that was created by a thrid party from an Excel or Access database ?

Is this possible? Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

My Product Information:
Acrobat, Windows
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2008-09-14 22:04:44
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thomp
Expert
Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
This is something you can write an automation script for. DB access is done with the ADBC object in Acrobat JavaScript. A automation script can read data out of any ODBC conneced data base and write it into a form. The trick is in mapping column names in the DB to field names on the form. So while this is possible, it definately requires some programming.

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[url=http://www.pdfScripting.com]pdfscripting.com[/url]

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