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productivityinterns / productivitywebapp

A webapp for increasing productivity when filling out forms
MIT License
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We may need to implement the user GUI before we write to pdf... #19

Closed Connorapple closed 5 years ago

Connorapple commented 5 years ago

So there is no way to dynamically get the fillable fields and know what they are. When you grab fields they are represented as

"f1_01(0)", "1"   
"f1_02(0)", "1" 
"f1_03(0)", "1" 
"f1_04(0)", "8"

So, not very helpful and would need a previous knowledge of every document every time it writes.

My thought is that if we build the template creator GUI, complete with the pdf field assigner, we can use that data to "create" our own pdf which gives us the ability to name and control the fields (im pretty sure at least)

S4lt5 commented 5 years ago

You could just go with fields in order for the sake of a demo, and have that as one way you can specify them. e.g the 18th field.

But being able to read/write the PDF and give fields names sounds like a good thing, for sure