{"id":4601,"date":"2017-02-16T22:50:37","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T22:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alt2.minisoft.com\/support\/?p=4601"},"modified":"2017-02-16T22:50:37","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T22:50:37","slug":"populating-a-pdf-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/populating-a-pdf-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Populating a PDF Form"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can populate fields in a PDF document with data from various sources, including a database, shipping label, or XML.<\/p>\n

Set up your variables<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. If your PDF file includes more than one page, create a variable and set its value to the system variable, Page Number.\u00a0Your PDF document can be any number of pages. This example uses the name\u00a0ThePage.<\/li>\n
  2. Create a variable and set its value to the system variable, Full Data File Name. This example uses the name\u00a0FileName.<\/li>\n
  3. Create other variables from your data source that you want to add to the PDF file.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Set up the PDF document<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Create a Load Image rule and set the Use variable field to the variable you defined in Step 2 above, which contains the data file name. To create a Load Image rule, right click the form > Add Rule > Load Image:\"\"<\/li>\n
    2. In the Load Image Action window, set the Default resolution to 300.\"\"<\/li>\n
    3. Click PDF File using the Rule Variable.<\/li>\n
    4. If your PDF document has more than one page, in the Page area, click Variable, and then select the variable you created in Step 1 of “Set up your variables” above.\u00a0\"\"<\/li>\n
    5. Click OK.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Place your variables<\/strong><\/p>\n

      Each variable must be set with a Place Text rule. Complete these steps for each occurrence of each variable on each page. You can place the same variable multiple times on multiple pages.<\/p>\n

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      1. Right click the form > Add Rule > Place Text.<\/li>\n
      2. Name the rule and select the variable to place.<\/li>\n
      3. In the Place Text Action window, specify the position. You can drag the text to fine position it later.<\/li>\n
      4. Click Change font and specify the font attributes to use. Click OK.<\/li>\n
      5. If your PDF file contains multiple pages, set a condition so the variable does not show up on every page. Right click the rule > Add AND condition > Is equal to. Set the page number, and then click OK. The following example shows a condition to show the variable only on page 2:\"\"<\/li>\n
      6. Verify that you see the variables in the correct positions on each page.<\/li>\n
      7. Save your updated project.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        You can populate fields in a PDF document with data from various sources, including a database, shipping label, or XML. Set up your variables If your PDF file includes more than one page, create a variable and set its value to the system variable, Page Number.\u00a0Your PDF document can be any number of pages. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,105],"tags":[176,177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4601"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4610,"href":"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/revisions\/4610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minisoft.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}