I need to create code filling a ready report template. It's easy with text fields and checkboxes - I just needed to insert appropriate form fields in the document; however, I can't find any solution for inserting pictures that way. There are some fields in LibreOffice like Image Button or Image Control, however, I can't find them via PoDoFo to insert an image in this particular box.
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I have 1700 PDF datasheets that contain a set of text and image boxes. The underlying template of each datasheet is the same, but the contents of the boxes vary. I'd like to find a program that lets me take the modified text box contents (summarized in an excel table) and repopulate the original sheets.
I have extracted the information from the text boxes using the "Merge Data files into an excel file" under the Prepare Form tool in Adobe DC and have used a variety of =Substitute functions in excel to change the contents of the text boxes to what I want. What I would like to do now is use a program to go back to the original .PDF and overwrite the original fields. I would just run a mail merge on this normally, but I don't have access to the images anymore so the image boxes would be blank.
Alternatively I've considered using something like Pulover Macro Creator to step through the excel list and paste in the contents into every sheet, but I'm hoping that there's an existing piece of software to do this.
I'm using Extract Form Fields to get data from a PDF. But upon selecting the area where the desired text is located, the "Value" text area in the popup should be automatically populated with desired text, but that isn't the case. The "Value" field is staying blank.
Any idea what might be causing this?
you need to check whether your PDF has handwritten content or it is a scanned file.
if your PDF does not satisfy above criteria you can easily automate your PDF using Automation anywhere by selecting the area. if your PDF is invoice or bill or any type of GST forms better to use IQ Bot.
How do I dynamically give a value to an existing barcode created in acrobat.
I created the bar code in a pdf form by following this guide.
When I type something into the form fields , the bar code does get updated with the values. However the catch is , the pdf is dynamically generated through ruby code, and the form is prefilled. However the barcode doesn't include the data dynamicallly filled into the pdf form. If I make any change in the pdf form data , the bar code is reloaded and now includes the entire form data , but this doesn't happen when the generated pdf is opened for the first time.
To summarize.
1) Added barcode to a pdf form and added javascript to calcuate bar code value.
2) Bar code gets updated with newly calcuated value as form data is changed.
3) Dynamically filled the pdf form created in step 1. All form fields are filled , but bar code doesn't include the data.
4) If I make a change to data in pdf created in 3 , the bar code gets redrawn with all the data filled on the server and also includes the data change I just made.
The problem is in step 3 , when the pdf form is filled with data on the server , I am expecting the bar code to include the data.
P.S , I have used pdf-forms to fill out pdf on server. I have also tried itext java api to fill out the form.
In addition, with both pdf-forms and itext , I have tried to provide an initial value for the bar code. However if I do this , the barcode doesn't even show in the generated pdf and instead the provided values show.
P.S 2nd. I have also been able to generate a bar code image using itext. However I need this bar code to be updated as the user changes form data in the generated pdf. Obviously the image doesn't update. and hence I tried the above approch of using a script in the pdf to calcuate barcode value on the fly.
One thing to understand first. In PDF, the value of a field and its appearance on the page are two different things. When created in Acrobat, the value of a Barcode Field is actually calculated based on your selections in the UI when you created it. Acrobat injects some JavaScript into the field so that when new data is entered by the user, the value of the field is recalculated and Acrobat can generate a new appearance for the barcode field (an image). If you only update value of the field on the server but don't set the "needs Appearances" property to true on the document, Acrobat won't know to regenerate the barcode appearance. You could, however, generate the barcode appearance and set that via iText but you'd need to know the JavaScript calculation in order to do so. Once the value and the appearance are set up and the needs appearances property is set, the form should work normally.
Since you have tried multiple libraries, I'm going to suggest one more. The Datalogics PDF Java Toolkit can actually do all of this for you without needing to know what field data the barcode represents. You just populate the non-barcode fields with data, tell the Toolkit to calculate the form and generate appearances and it just works. The barcode gets rendered exactly the same as it would have been if filled out in Acrobat.
I have made PDF form containing Radiobutton, Text Field, Button,CheckBox and Barcode in Adobe Acrobat Pro. and all is working well.
But according to new requirement I have to "Autogenerate" some of the fields like Radiobutton, Text Field and CheckBox on clicking to the "Add Field" Button, and on clicking the button the control should get auto generate to that PDF form.
Additional the text which is already added to the PDF form get flow down whenever the fields get auto generate on the top of the form.
According to my findings I found that it is possible through Adobe liveCycle but I want it to happen in Adobe Acrobat Pro
Also I have tried adding the blank new PDF page so that according to requirement I autogenerate my field on that blank PDF but not able to add new PDF page through Javascript?
Thanks you in advance.
It is possible; you would need to use form fields for everything which can move when you add new fields (been there, done that).
Then you will need a pagination logic which places or moves the fields to their correct position.
We want to create a Cognos report which renders a PDF output with an editable text field. Some of the values in the report will be retrieved from Database and one editable text field should be available which a user can manually edit outside of the report studio using pdf editors.
How do we create this editable text field in cognos?
There isn't any method I'm aware of to do this shy of using some post-processing code external to Cognos to edit the PDF and insert what you're looking for in a particular location.
You would need to ask IBM to add an enhancement to Cognos to get this to happen.