From: Rob Kaufman <rgkaufman@...>
Date: 2006-07-19T05:49:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Printing Barcodes from Ruby

I agree with you that the create_fdf method is kind of a "magic" hack,
but it allows you to very simply take hash data to fill in a form.
I'll be honest, though I understand how it works, I didn't create this
method or do much to change it.  Using pdftk makes a lot of since to
me, since leveraging a separate tool increases the debugging base.

We're using Acrobat to create our form template.

Rob Kaufman

On 7/17/06, listrecv@gmail.com <listrecv@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Rob Kaufman wrote:
> > Right now we're using the method described here ->
> > http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoGeneratePDFs under the
> > heading PDF Form Fill.  It calls pdftk externally, it is not a ruby
> > binding or anything.  Don't be put off by this being a Rails link, the
> > technique works just fine without Rails installed.
>
>
> Rob,
>
> I took a look at that.  Looks good, except that FDF generator looks
> very hackish.  Is there a cleaner way of doing this, perhaps using
> XFDF?
>
> (Also, how did you generate the PDF initially - just using a word
> processor, and adding form fields in Acrobat?)
>
>
>