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farling42 / fvtt-pdf-pager

PDF Pager for Foundry
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REQUEST: Import values from existing PDF #24

Closed Zamrod closed 1 year ago

Zamrod commented 1 year ago

Since the module can already take values from Foundry and put them into a PDF to use as a character sheet it would be nice to be able to do the reverse and take values from a form fillable PDF and put them into Foundry. I run a lot of online games for strangers that have their characters already filled out in the default dnd5e character sheet and it would be nice to get at least most of the values imported from that.

farling42 commented 1 year ago

Oh, I misread your request. You want to load an external PDF that already contains filled forms, and have those values imported into Foundry.

farling42 commented 1 year ago

This facility is available in 0.20.0. It is controlled by a check box in the module settings. When selected, the data within a PDF file will be loaded into the mapped Actor fields when the PDF window is opened. Editing within the PDF window is disabled when the option is enabled, in order to prevent the user from making local changes to the Actor which will be overwritten when the PDF window is next opened.