creating a pdf version of a complicated form, populated with data from a database

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com
Fri Apr 5 09:45:31 CEST 2024


Uwe Ziegenhagen said on Wed, 3 Apr 2024 19:36:35 +0200

>I would not try to recreate the form as such: it is possible, but not
>required and does not add benefit to the solution as such.
>
>What you can do is to use the PDF as a background and just put the
>text on the right places. I have done this a couple of times, see e.g.

Yes! This is how I did it back in the 1980's, except back then the
forms were on a tractor feed printer. Making all those red lines and
text would, to me, be an unneeded distraction.

SteveT

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