Fill PDF

Fill PDF 7.x-1.2 breaks some key functionality. Please use 7.x-1.3 or later. Issue: #1400092: Error opening documents

Main features

• Fill PDFs with node and webform tokens (includes CCK/field tokens and any tokens that appear with the 'node' token type)
• Export and import field mappings - useful when a PDF has changed and been re-uploaded
• Save a PDF to a file path (supports tokens) instead of issuing a download to the user's browser. Or do both.
• Leave PDF form fields editable after filling them. Works with the pdftk and Fill PDF Service fill methods.
• Replace field values after the tokens have been changed into real values. For example, replace 1 with Yes to cause a checkbox to be checked in the PDF, which may need a different value for this than the CCK field/field provides. Useful if you don't want to change the CCK field/field values just to satisfy the PDF. These replacements can be made at the PDF and field levels, with field-level replacements having higher priority.

Dependencies

• (6.x-only) CCK
• Token

Recommended

• (7.x-only) - Webform Tokens (if you want to use this module with Webform forms)

Setup

See http://drupal.org/node/369990 for instructions on installing and using Fill PDF. Note that this documentation is for 6.x and is not complete. You should also read the issue queue to find additional explanations and answers to previous support questions.

Who uses Fill PDF?

Please get in touch if you'd like to be added to this list.

• University of Waterloo
• Fill PDF Service (of course!)

Sponsors

• Fill PDF Service and WizOne Solutions - a portion of revenue goes towards this module's development (disclaimer: these are my businesses).
• Tom D. Davidson - sponsored field-value transformation and save-as-file features for Drupal 6
• University of Waterloo - helped get the module cleaned up and security issues fixed
• Special thank you to schWeb, LLC - helped get support for filling images fixed in Drupal 6

Roadmap

Possible future features:

1. Emailing the PDF automatically (or documenting how to do it with Rules or similar methods, or writing hooks to enable this, etc.)
2. Bulk population of the same PDF file with data from a set of content items or webforms
3. Figuring something out so we can populate form fields with more data, like Ubercart info, webform data, entire views, etc. (This is likely to be done via entity support in Drupal 7.)
4. Providing easier and/or pure PHP PDF fill methods (see #1167946: Research if PHP solution for filling forms exists yet)

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