fill pdf form from Access ???

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Alex Popescu

Hi everybody

I have an Access database and a .pdf form. I would like to use the .pdf
form as a report, filling in the pdf fields with info from the access
database.

I wonder if anybody has any idea if I can and if yes, how to do it
programmatically through VBA.

Many thanks
alex

ps for reply by email, please remove the "dash" in the "u-k" in my email
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Alex:

There's two ways to do this.

1.) You can of course link an access db to Adobe Acrobat (using the ADBC,
see the Java help and the example on the CD (at least with version 5) and
write Java script to pull data and fill the form.

2.) You can export an image of the form as a jpeg or gif from Acrobat and
use that image as a background layer on an Access report and simply overlay
controls over the form areas.

Option 2 is much easier.
 
Thanks a lot Steve! I didn't know about option 1. And option2, damn, so
obvious! Thanks again!
alex
 
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