Fill PDF Forms Using an HTML Front-End

[wiseowl]

Hi

Can anyone please advise ways in which I can get remote users to Fill PDF Forms Using an HTML Front-End using any browser?

Any help appreciated.

[stymiee]

Look at the FDF Toolkit from Adobe.

[wiseowl]

I came across pdf toolkit re following link:-

http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/

Anyone had experience of this using html email form fields to populate PDF form fields?

[stymiee]

Do you mean email? Or just an regular web-based form?

[wiseowl]

Fill PDF forms by means of an HTML form interface

[stymiee]

The FDF Toolkit is the best for that.

[StuckRUs]

I found this.

If you are planning or developing a new PHP application that needs to operate with PDF forms data, I strongly recommend to use XFDF format instead of FDF. You won't need any additional libraries because XFDF is XML-based. Plus, there are all signs that Adobe is gradually phasing out FDF in favor of XFDF (for example, they don't even let you download FDF Toolkit anymore, you have to request it from them).

[wiseowl]

Anyone had practicle experience of StuckRUs comments re XFDF etc