I am in a situation where I have approximetly 100 forms, which all use the same basic information. (We are in a law office) Essentially, I was wondering if there was a way to make my PDF's draw from the same "table" or database of information. For example, if I input a clients first and last name, that I could have their first and last name be on the entire slew of documents.
In summary, I think I am looking for a way to input all the information once for each client, and have it populate on the forms. I am not sure if this is possible with adobe, if not does anyone have any idea how to go about accomplishing this task?
-Brian
I've been using a similar system created and refined over the last 15 years with WordPerfect form and data files. That system uses a single data file, dozens of forms that employ that data, and macros that merge the data with the forms. Using that system I can produce a number of documents in a few seconds. It's been a great system, but not something you could easily market or teach others to use. The new system with Acrobat pdf forms has some limitations (document assembly with flowing text and variable text/paragraphs/documents in response to field content), but in the end will be a great improvement, and can be easily used by others with almost no training time at all. Two other valuable aspects of the Acrobat forms: (1) the data can also be exported to an Excel spreadsheet, and thereby used as a data source for Word or WordPerfect merge forms employing common field names, as well as with Acrobat pdf forms; and (2) Acrobat is platform independent, i.e. can be used on both PCs and Macs.
David D