Use Visualforce and Apex to Populate PDF Forms

by Jesse Lorenz on December 23, 2008 at 03:20 PM

Does your company's business process involve filling out PDF forms? Perhaps something like IRS Form W-4?

If so, you may be interested to learn that in addition to creating PDF documents from scratch, you can also use Visualforce and Apex to automate the process of populating third-party PDF forms. Ron Hess and I recently collaborated on a project that does just that. It's a straightforward process where all you really need to do is generate an XML file that follows Adobe's XFDF format.

If you're interested to learn more, we've documented an example that creates an XFDF file which is then used to populate a simple PDF form. Read the XFDF wiki article to learn more.

 

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Posted by Jason on January 22, 2009 01:25 PM:

The link to this article died. Any chance it could be fixed?

Posted by gt on January 29, 2009 01:11 PM:

I've tried to get to this article as well using my DFC account and I get a permission error stating that I must belong to one of the groups (*) or (user). Can you send me the article? Or verify that the link is functioning?

Posted by Rolan on March 25, 2009 12:40 AM:

Hi, can you please send me the article or explain more about the way how to handle third-party pdf?

Posted by Andi Giri on April 3, 2009 12:35 AM:

Ron,

I have been unable to access the XFDF wiki article. Please send that to me via email to asgiri@softsquare.biz and post it on the Wiki with appropriate permissions,

Andi Giri

Posted by Ron Hess on May 3, 2009 08:41 PM:

thanks for pointing this out, the link is fixed.

Posted by Chirag Mehta on July 1, 2010 05:32 AM:

grt article!

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