We have a legacy system that prints plain mono spaced text on
pre-printed forms.  If that blank form became a PDF, what product
would be needed to merge the mono spaced text file with the PDF so
that it could be displayed and printed from a web site?

--Dale--

"Dale" <DRS.Usenet@sengsational.com> wrote in message
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> We have a legacy system that prints plain mono spaced text on
> pre-printed forms.  If that blank form became a PDF,

with form fields to allow merging FDF-formatted data,

> what product
> would be needed to merge the mono spaced text file with the PDF so
> that it could be displayed and printed from a web site?

The phrase "mono spaced text file" is irrelevant in this context. All
required formatting of text should be incorporated in the PDF, including the
formats of the added form fields.

You would need a server-side script that would send (print to STDOUT) the
FDF as Content-Type: application/vnd.fdf, in response to a submittal from
the client side.

In this scenario, the merging of the FDF into the PDF is done on the client
side. The client browser must have Acrobat (full distro or Reader)
configured as a plugin
in the browser, as well as a live TCP/IP connection, to be able to support a
"Submit" action, regardless of whether the "Submit" action originates from a
PDF or an HTML page.

Note that the "web site" need not be remote-hosted. The web server to
support the transactions needed here could be on the same network as the
client browser, including the client computer itself.

Finally, the OP specifically requested a web-based solution. OTOH, merging
FDF files into PDFs doe not *require* a web-based solution, as a PDF can
import form data (FDF) directly.

Cheers.
--
Bill Segraves

Sounds like you want some kind of automated text-to-pdf conversion software
that can overlay a form. Try this

http://www.jbmsystems.com/octopdf.html

or this

http://www.convert-in.com/txt2pdf.htm

"Dale" <DRS.Usenet@sengsational.com> wrote in message
news:8455e7ec.0402251037.69c8ea04@posting.google.com...
> We have a legacy system that prints plain mono spaced text on
> pre-printed forms.  If that blank form became a PDF, what product
> would be needed to merge the mono spaced text file with the PDF so
> that it could be displayed and printed from a web site?
>
> --Dale--