I have a pdf document containing interactive form fields; this
document requests that a remote user fill out the form and utillize an
Email Submit Button to send an xml file containing the form data to
our email address.

Is there a 'quick n dirty' way to, on our end, somehow match this data
file to a local copy of the pdf so that we can have a human-readable
source for use in inputting the data into a legacy application (that
does not support reading xml, or any other external data source for
that matter)?

Thank you.

"robert.waters" <robert.waters@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1185108314.605171.38340@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
> I have a pdf document containing interactive form fields; this
> document requests that a remote user fill out the form and utillize an
> Email Submit Button to send an xml file containing the form data to
> our email address.
>
> Is there a 'quick n dirty' way to, on our end, somehow match this data
> file to a local copy of the pdf so that we can have a human-readable
> source for use in inputting the data into a legacy application (that
> does not support reading xml, or any other external data source for
> that matter)?

Yes. The "quick and dirty" way is the way that already exists.

Look in one of your xml form data files for the "f" spec, e.g.,

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xfdf xmlns="http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/">
<f href="f1040ez.pdf" />
<fields>
<field name="f1-1">
<value>Chuck </value>
</field>
.... more fields
</fields>
</xfdf>

Adobe (Reader) associates the xml form data with the file named in the "f"
spec.

That said (written), why would you want to manually enter data into your
legacy application when you could use a program to do it?

Cheers,
Bill Segraves