From: Frank Davis <Fdavis@...>
Date: 2006-07-22T08:52:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and XFDF

This is just a guess, but the first place I'd look would be what
command-line arguments Acrobat Reader supports under Linux. There's a
good chance you can pass the name of an xfdf to acrobat this way, so you
could just use %x{    } to launch it with the appropriate form data.

If you need more automation than that (for example, to automatically
print the resulting form), I know Acrobat is highly scriptable using
Javascript. If it supports being passed a Javascript file on the command
line, you could generate the xfdf file, then generate a short javascript
file that tells Acrobat to open up and print the form.

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Subject: Re: Ruby and XFDF



Frank Davis wrote:
> I'm doing the same thing in a C# application. The technique I use 
> should work fine in Ruby also. The XFDF files are pure XML, so I use 
> an XML builder to generate the XFDF file.

Yes, that's exactly why I'd like to work with them.   Very easy to do
this accurately using REXML (or similar).

> Under Windows, I can also take
> advantage of the fact that files with a .xfdf extension are associated

> with Acrobat. For example, if I tell Windows to execute "MyForm.xfdf",

> Acrobat will launch, read the xfdf file, and automatically open the 
> Acrobat PDF listed in the xfdf, and populate the form fields using the

> data in the xfdf file.

Intersting approach.  I need this to run automated, on a (Linux) server,
so this idea won't work.  Any other ideas?