Re: Use pdf as background for form

alanglloyd@xxxxxxx wrote:
On 20 May, 04:29, TD <d...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is there a way to use a pdf file as the background of a form. �The pdf
file contains a form that the user prints out, fills in and mails
off. �I want to create a program to computerize this but do not want
to convert the pdf file to any other type of image.

PDF files can be printed from Acrobat Reader. So don't even show the
PDF file, have the user click a button and make a Shell call to Print
the PDF file.

I think TD wants to computerize the filling-out part, too.

I also assume that the PDF isn't already set up to be a fill-in form, or else TD wouldn't need to write any program at all since Acrobat and Foxit both support fill-in forms.

Look up ".pdf" in the registry & follow the trail - in my system it
starts at AcroExch.Document.

That part doesn't really matter. ShellExecute('print', 'foo.pdf') will print it without the caller needing to muck about in the registry at all.

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Rob
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