PDF Forms and Filemaker

[Rex Havoc]

My company uses custom Acrobat PDF forms to distribute project updates. I would like to tie these forms into my departmental FMP project database to maintain accurate updates and billings. The PDF's do not originate from FMP.

Importing/maintaining constantly updated info is the main issue. Seems like a unique ID is needed - does Acrobat generate a unique form id?

I would greatly appreciate any direction on how to bridge this gap. Hate to sound like a newbie - but I am - at least with Acrobat.

[andygaunt]

Hi,

If you have FileMaker 6.x then you could check out this item found at the XML library by FileMaker

http://www.filemaker.com/xml/xslt_library.html

FMP to PDF/PDF to FMPDownload

by Dean Westover

Demonstrates how to auto-fill FileMaker data to a Acrobat PDF file. Auto-filled data can also be submitted from the Sample.pdf file back to the PDF_Filler.fp5 file. Both the PDF_Filler.fp5 and Sample.pdf files are unprotected. The author has only tested the package contents on the Windows platform. Another tester has reported that the files "worked well" on a Mac running OS 9.1.