Tag Archives: PDF Forms

Connect to Database from PDF Form – This Time Without SOAP

Posted on August 8, 2017 by Karl Heinz Kremer

I wrote about how to get data from (or to) a database from a PDF form using SOAP a while ago. Using SOAP poses a problem when you want to make such a solution work with the free Adobe Reader. … Continue reading →

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New Form Field Types in Acrobat DC: Image Field and Date Picker

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Karl Heinz Kremer

This morning Adobe released an update for the “Continuous” track of Adobe Acrobat DC – this means that anybody with a subscription will be able to install this update and get new features. There are a number of new and … Continue reading →

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Batch-Import List Data into PDF Form

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Karl Heinz Kremer

We’ve talked about batch importing data from an Excel document into a PDF form before: http://khkonsulting.com/2015/10/batch-import-excel-data-into-pdf-forms/ Back then, the idea was that we would have a spreadsheet with rows of data, and every row would be imported into a new … Continue reading →

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Batch-Import Excel Data into PDF Forms

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Karl Heinz Kremer

A while ago I documented for AcrobatUsers.com how to manually import an Excel data record into a PDF form. You can find this information here: Can I import data from an Excel spreadsheet to a fillable PDF Form? This is … Continue reading →

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Preview.app – Killer of PDF Files

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Karl Heinz Kremer

How do you feel about an application saving changes to your files without you knowing? How about if that application is not just saving harmless changes, but in the process of doing so also rewrites the file and removes important … Continue reading →

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