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How to Write PDF Form Fields Using K2

  • November 2, 2015
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I have a Fillable pdf Form (a government form) which cant be modified. At the mean time i am working with smart forms where it intakes the value and stores that into a sql database. I was wondering how can i use the values saved in db to populate that in the pdf i have whose look and feel cannot be changed.

 

Thank You

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Hi cingeme1

 

This is not something that you are going to be able to do out of the box with K2. I suggest you do some research on third party tools that can auto-populate Adobe forms. Depending on how you want it to work, and what API the tool you choose has, you might be able to write a custom service broker to do the auto-populate.

 

Here is an example of a third party tool that allows you to maniplulate PDF documents:

 

http://www.aspose.com/.net/pdf-component.aspx

 

 


  • November 29, 2018

The thing that worked out fine to me was to use third-party form builder instead, like Adobe, PDFfiller or JotForm. I heard one could do so right inside K2, yet I hadn't figured this out to myself


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  • December 3, 2018

Hi cingeme1,


 


Im trying to understand exatcly what you need?


Would it not work to populate a Form with all the data from the SQL Database and generate a PDF from that form?


 


-Jean