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Making an Editable and Savable PDF

 
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hello,
I have a requirement in one of my applications to generate an editable and savable PDF on the fly. There are some 600 different forms which need to be generated based on a criteria.How can i generate an editable PDF which the user can edit online and they can save it (in the session itself), and the application will mail the edited PDF to a different set of users? I read that "iText" can serve my purpose. Any inputs will be of great help to me.

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Jackson N
 
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Welcome to JavaRanch.

iText can indeed create PDFs containing forms; see its tutorial for some examples.

As to submitting it to the server, I think that's more of a question what Acrobat Reader supports. I think the Pro version has more features in this regard, but I'm not sure about that. The Reader help (or Adobe's online documentation) will probably tell you what it can and can not do.

It sounds like you'll be getting seriously into iText (600 forms is quite a bit). I advise to get the book "iText in Action"; it's a must-have for anyone who spends considerable time with the library.
 
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