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J-man Posts: 936 From: Canada Status: offline	PDF to MS access database and back to PDF - 3/9/2002 11:55:13 I was in planetpdf and was told that this would take about 6 months to achieve and that there would be major issues because acrobat is a program that hates html and has configuration problems. THAT Only pressed me harder to complete teh project and it was one of the easiest thing to do, now i'm getting email about how to do it. Well here it goes. In the Pdf form you can choose to export the form data as either FDF or HTML format, HTML format is the standard urlEncoded string, but for this string to work you have to place this at the bottom of the page: <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> document.location.href="http://www.company.com/page.asp" </SCRIPT> and this at the top between teh head tags: <BASE HREF="http://www.company.com/page.asp"> In the pdf when you select HTML form for exporting the form data, you just put in: http://www.company.com/page.asp Now with all that in mind, the string will go the desired html page at which case you can retrieve the variables as you would any urlEncoded string that is appropiate for the application you are making, or you can use Request to parse the whole application page. So now you have an asp page that can use email components to send the variables, even to a database. to retrieve the info from the database into the pdf you would use one of the scripts here: http://www.laundrymat.tv/pdf/ ofcourse you would have to create an asp page that merges the database info with the pdf, possibly by a unique field. That simple! BTW - my first tutorial, i'm no technical writer so if you have any questions, you can email me jason_havelock@yahoo.ca --- keep in mind i'm busy so don't expect a quick reply �


J-man Posts: 936 From: Canada Status: offline	RE: PDF to MS access database and back to PDF - 3/9/2002 11:57:55 This is not specific to MS access only, obviously � (in reply to J-man)


LB Posts: 5551 From: Montana USA Status: offline	RE: PDF to MS access database and back to PDF - 3/13/2002 20:51:39 Thanks, J-man! Very cool indeed. (in reply to J-man)


J-man Posts: 936 From: Canada Status: offline	RE: PDF to MS access database and back to PDF - 7/20/2002 15:41:08 Because i' m getting so many emails on populating pdf forms with database information i thought i' d create an example, hoping i can get some work done, if some goes wrong or anything weird don' t blame me blame everyone but me... cheers http://www.employment-solutions.ca/test.zip have fun with it, oh i forgot to mention that i used an access db in the example and the connection string is DNSless but will have to be changed to your path, i' d would appreciate some comments here about it though cause i wrote it and never tested it so it you get an error i' m sure its a simple one if not maybe someone in the db/asp room will help you out later (in reply to J-man)