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Last Login: 5/17/2006 11:46:41 AM
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| | Let's say I have some forms that I've made as PDFs. I'd really like to push/pull data from those forms to Point. Ok, so it seems a little crazy but it could be very cool. I'm not afraid to get my hands dirty programmatically, so keep that in mind My reasoning behind this is: - I like PDFs much better than word
- many lender forms are in PDF, so I could just modify the existing PDFs
- I always have acrobat open for one reason or another, not so with word
- let's face it, PDFs are much better for sending around the net
Yeah, so it's probably nuts, but I needed to ask. Ideas? |
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Last Login: 3/16/2007 4:25:08 PM
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| | Well, the rain on your parade is that that Point's custom forms are built around MS Word's mail merge capabilities. Point is making calls to MS Word to open a document, merge in the Point data, and print it. (The AutoWord component is inside the Winpoint folder.) You can bring a PDF into the custom forms with one of the various PDF to Word converters. I've had pretty good results with Solid PDF Converter. And of course you can print the forms to PDF. So the annoyance is just MS Word in the middle handling the mail merge and using MS Word to create the forms. I'm sure that you could program a way to extract the information out of the Point files and populate the PDF forms. But "why reinvent the wheel"? |
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