Generate a PDF document from a user-completed online form

[freddies_dad]

Hi there,

Does anyone know if it's possible to generate a "structured" PDF on-line.

The idea being, user enters a couple of details and the "system" goes off and puts them in the appropriate spaces of a pre-formatted PDF document and then returns the PDF to the user for saving/downloading/printing/whatever.

Say you had a target PDF form, with spaces for name and address. Then some "static" details and then a comment field. The user would enter their name and address and comments in to a typical form but the returned document would "look nice".

If you see what I mean?

If it's possible, does anyone know if it's expensive?

Thanks,

[RoAd_TerRorIst]

Certainly possible in most of the main server scripts like PHP, Cold Fusion or ASP.

What is your server/website running now?

[shocker-z]

Yeah I've written some BIG scripts for outputting 250,000 records (bout 2000pages) straight to PDF using PHP but also another alternative which is a bit simpler if to output data as printable HTML file and then use a PDF printer program

Regards
Liam

[freddies_dad]

My server is Linux PHP at the moment. Would it need Acrobat distiller type software on the sever too? I'm assuming it will.

It may be that I can replicate the PDF document as HTML (I confess I hadn't thought of that!) but in the first instance I'd like to consider publishing straight to PDF.

Thanks for your help.

[Plotloss]

www.ros.co.nz/pdf/

Edited by Plotloss on Wednesday 24th January 10:18

[freddies_dad]

Plotloss said:

www.ros.co.nz/pdf/

Yeah... that looks just about ideal!

Thanks, Plotty. Please tell me it was an arduous Google search that threw that up and not the first thing you came across.

[Plotloss]

First result for 'pdf php class'...

[freddies_dad]

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