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pdffillerjs / pdffiller

Take an existing PDF Form and data and PDF Filler will create a new PDF with all given fields populated.
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How to build the source pdf? #50

Open anthonywebb opened 7 years ago

anthonywebb commented 7 years ago

Curious what tool you guys are using to build the PDF form that is to be filled? I am sure Adobe's product will do that, but are there other applications that are available to do the same thing? Most of the PDF utilities I have seen out there are good at joining or reordering existing PDF's, but make nno mention of actually building a fillable PDF form that would be compatible with this "pdffiller" library. Hoping to get some direction from people who have been down this road? Thanks!

whitef0x0 commented 7 years ago

@anthonywebb I'm using pre-made fillable pdfs, so no need to generate them for my use-case.

whitef0x0 commented 7 years ago

But probably the best way of doing this is using something like this https://github.com/mainegreen/pdf.js or something like this https://www.hiqpdf.com/documentation/html/4fcaefe5-86bc-4326-b9c3-7aa0d4aa8b11.htm.

I'm sure something like PDFtk also has support for creating fillable PDFs if you look deeply enough.