Good day

My objective is to populate an existing pdf document with information from a data base. I have never interacted with PDF docs before using classic ASP. I have read and can find a fair bit of info about creating PDF docs however looking for information on populating an existing template iseems to be a bit thin.

Any advice on this would be appreciated. To achieve this objective using pure ASP would be great. mmmmm whats my chances of that??

The specific objective is:

>user clicks print/save my information
>code finds the .pdf template file and makes a copy for writing
>gets recordset from DB
>populates the blank form fields on the file and presents the file for printing/saving.


TYIA

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Matt

Hi,

this isn't exactly a classic asp solution but you might want to look into iTextSharp for a c# solution..

I haven't used it to replace text in existing pdf's yet, but looking at the following blogpost it seems possible: http://www.johnnycode.com/blog/2010/...and-itextsharp

Hi,

if you don't need to stick to classic asp it can be done in c# and the open source iTextSharp library.

If you google on "Using a template to programmatically create PDFs with C# and iTextSharp" you'll find an example blog post on how to do that..

disel2010 - Thank you for your time however Classic ASP is required in this case

Others

http://www.asppdf.com/ seems to work very well, excellent documentation. So far I have only figured out how to write to an existing template using x and y coords for placement. mmmmm a bit weird I would have thought you should have been able to reference PDF form field names. Also the corrds seen to be from the bottom left position for each page, also a bit weird I thought. Anybody know why?

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