Saving PDF Forms from the Browser

I have a CF program that allows users to populate a PDF document's form fields and load the completed document into their browser. If they have only the reader they can print it but cannot save it to disk. Reader saves the form fields out blank. If they have the writer it saves the PDF file just fine, but most of my users will not have the writer. Is there a way I can get around this and allow users with only the free reader to save the altered PDF file to their drive? I saw a bunch of stuff in CF8 that may allow me to save it to the server then load it, but I'm on CF7. Thanks, Robert B. Harrison Director of Interactive services Austin & Williams 125 Kennedy Drive, Suite 100 Hauppauge NY 11788 T : 631.231.6600 Ext. 119 F : 631.434.7022 www.austin-williams.com Great advertising can't be either/or... It must be &.

Let's try a different question then. I'm using: <cfcontent type="application/vnd.fdf"> <cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="NO"><cfinclude template="#form.file_name#.fdf"> to populate pdf forms with user entered data from an HTML form. This works but the user can't save the form with the reader. How can I write it to the server disk as a PDF file? If I can do that I can serve up the saved file.   Robert B. Harrison Director of Interactive services Austin & Williams 125 Kennedy Drive, Suite 100 Hauppauge NY 11788 T : 631.231.6600 Ext. 119 F : 631.434.7022 www.austin-williams.com Great advertising can't be either/or... It must be &. I have a CF program that allows users to populate a PDF document's form fields and load the completed document into their browser. If they have only the reader they can print it but cannot save it to disk. Reader saves the form fields out blank. If they have the writer it saves the PDF file just fine, but most of my users will not have the writer. Is there a way I can get around this and allow users with only the free reader to save the altered PDF file to their drive? I saw a bunch of stuff in CF8 that may allow me to save it to the server then load it, but I'm on CF7. Thanks, Robert B. Harrison Director of Interactive services Austin & Williams 125 Kennedy Drive, Suite 100 Hauppauge NY 11788 T : 631.231.6600 Ext. 119 F : 631.434.7022 www.austin-williams.com Great advertising can't be either/or... It must be &.

Robert, If you want to dabble in some Java you can use the iText library to write the captured data to the pdf form and then push the resulting pdf file to the browser. http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ HTH. On Dec 17, 2007 9:31 AM, Robert Harrison <robert@austin-williams.com> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

On a related question, I have been trying to get an interactive PDF to both output the completed PDF as a PDF and insert the form values into a database for a mortgage application.  Does anyone have insights on how to do this? Robert, If you want to dabble in some Java you can use the iText library to write the captured data to the pdf form and then push the resulting pdf file to the browser. http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ HTH. On Dec 17, 2007 9:31 AM, Robert Harrison <robert@austin-williams.com> wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

Are you using both a PDF and FDF file? If you are using FDF this is doable. Robert B. Harrison Director of Interactive services Austin & Williams 125 Kennedy Drive, Suite 100 Hauppauge NY 11788 T : 631.231.6600 Ext. 119 F : 631.434.7022 www.austin-williams.com Great advertising can't be either/or... It must be &. On a related question, I have been trying to get an interactive PDF to both output the completed PDF as a PDF and insert the form values into a database for a mortgage application.  Does anyone have insights on how to do this?