Hi Anthony,
Eric Walstad wrote If ReportLab is able to generate FDF's, that'd be great! Can you point me to some documentation on how it's done?
Reportlab generates PDF. What's an FDF file? It's the file that supplies a PDF document that has form fields on it with the data those fields are supposed to display. IMHO, the FDF file should be in XML format but isn't :)
The first meaningful english link for "FDF" in google is "Greek Orthodox Folk Dance Festival", which I'm assuming is incorrect :) Heehee, I found that one, too!
A bit of searching around seems to say it's a Form Data Format or something - http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/docs.html shows that the most likely document is http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/docs/extapi/FormsA PIReference.pdf According to someone in my office, it's a pretty simple attribute-value pair type thing, and not too hard to parse... Yep. it is a relatively simple text file. I need to make one on the fly from some HTML form data. The Adobe FDF Toolkit library has some handy functions for creating the FDF files, but they don't supply a Python interface to the functions (they *do* supply them in ASP, C, and Perl, none of which I'm very experienced in). So, I took the hacker's way out and just wrote a python class that builds the FDF file from scratch. It's a total hack, but I've got it working for my simple forms.
Thanks for the reply, Eric.