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Prepopulate Interactive Form

KRegim
Registered: Mar 7 2008
Posts: 5
Answered

A user has a .prn. He wants to be able to take the contents and populate to an interactive pdf form. Is this possible? If so, how is it done?

KRegim

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LiveCycle Designer, Windows
thomp
Expert
Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
Not directly no. In order to populate a PDF Form the external data has be be in a form that can be imported or accessed by Acrobat, or by some other program that handles PDF. ".prn" files don't count. You'll need program to convert/extract the data from the ".prn" file. You could write this yourself in VB. And then use the Acrobat IAC to fill out the form from the VB program. Or use one the 3rd party PDF libraries to fill out the PDF.

There are a number of possibilities. But the common thread is that first, a way is needed to extract the data from the ".prn" file.

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