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[Nicholas Hart]

Thanks!  I have FPDF and FPDI working and they're just what I needed.   
Thanks again.

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Regards,
Nick



Quoting Brian Dailey <support at dailytechnology.net>:

> For Pete's sake, please do not use Word's "Save as HTML" feature. :P It
> makes a god-awful mess that won't render properly in most browsers.
>
> My suggestion is thusly: instead of making them fill out a "PDF" form
> (which means the fields are afterwards difficult for you to get to),
> let them fill out a web form which stores the information in a
> database. When you want to print the information out to a PDF file, use
> FPDF (http://www.fpdf.org) to inject the information into a PDF file
> (via X,Y coordinates) and then output it to the user.
>
> It's much easier and far more flexible this way, and you won't have to
> muddle about with Word documents.
>
>
>
> - Brian Dailey
> Software Developer
> New York, NY
> www.dailytechnology.net
>
> Nicholas Hart wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am looking for the easiest way to put an existing form (PDF) on   
>> the web for very non-tech users to fill out.  Currently we have a   
>> form that is downloaded as a PDF and mailed back to us.  I need to   
>> make the online version as similar as possible to filling out the   
>> existing form so our users don't get confused.  For the final   
>> submit, the data will be saved to our DB and the full form will be   
>> printed as a PDF for the users records.
>>
>> The way I see it there are two parts to this process:
>> 1. Filling in the form:
>> I have taken a Word.doc version of this PDF form and saved it as   
>> HTML. I don't know if I can trust this layout for all browser and   
>> OS versions.  Are there better ways to convert word to html?  How   
>> do other sites handle this?
>>
>> 2. Saving data and printing filled out PDF for user records:
>> Is there a php library that allows me to place fields in an   
>> existing PDF which does not have any embedded field names?  This   
>> would allow users to save the completed PDF to their hard drives   
>> which would be helpful.
>>
>> If anyone has any thoughts, suggestions or references to existing   
>> sites, it would be much appreciated.  I'm looking to get started on  
>>  the right foot with this.  Thanks.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Nicholas Hart
>>
>>
>> link to PDF: https://www.mptf.org:75/docs/TF2.pdf
>>
>>
>>
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