By filpet on

Is it somehow possible to integrate a PDF Form into a Page? so that a user just opens the page, fills out the form and presses the send button instead of downloading the form etc.?

Peter

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WorldFallz commented

The only module i know of even close is http://drupal.org/project/fillpdf -- might be worth a look.

EDIT: while searching for something else I noticed the http://drupal.org/project/webform2pdf form -- probably closer to what you're looking for.

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filpet commented

Thanks but it seems like these modules only create pdf's out of webforms. but i have already a pdf i want to integrate into the homepage

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mm167 commented

"..fills out the form.. "
"...i have already a pdf ..."

I was confused. what exactly is your case?

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

...so that a user just opens the page, fills out the form and presses the send button instead of downloading the form...

This is exactly what webform does. If this isn't what you're asking for you'll need to be clearer.

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christo commented

PDF forms are a client-side phenomenon. There needs to be a transfer of a PDF encoded file. Most common solution is as above: have client fill out an (X)HTML form and run server-side code to convert to PDF.

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filpet commented

The problem is normaly ppl fill out this pdf form and then press the send button and the data gets send to a specified mail as .xml file. i just want to integrate exactly this pdf form in the homepage so ppl dont need to download it...isn't this somehow possible with drupal?

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WorldFallz commented

Pdf-drupal integration is possible and i've linked 2 modules that handle it different ways. Based on your op i would have tried the webform module first, but from your follow ups fillpdf might be a better fit:

...this module requires an existing PDF with form-fields, and will populate those form-fields with data.
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filpet commented

yes but i dont want the pdf...the only thing i want out of this is the data in the xml file the pdf creates for me when pressing the send button! and when using webform this only creates a pdf!

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

Why didn't you say so, lol. That's even easier. Use the cck module (and assorted field modules as necessary) to create the form, then views and views_datasource to output xml.

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davidw commented

Thanks for the tip WorldFallz.

I'm stuck on creating a workflow where a user enters data into fields that becomes a node which either populates form fields in a PDF file which is then displayed to the user for approval and then merged with a hi-res PDF for output and submitted as an order, or saved as XML or FDF or XSLT and re-purposed some other crazy way. Makes my head spin.
Looked at webform, webform2pdf, fill PDF, etc.

Anyway, thanks for giving me another angle.