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Subject:Re: OT, sort of - Form question From:tarage -at- bellsouth -dot- net (imac) To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 11 Aug 2005 13:05:15 -0400
JOE HODGE wrote:
>A monkey wrench has been thrown into the plan. They want the online form
>to pull data, such as serial numbers, ship dates, etc. from the database
>and autofill certain fields. Is it possible to have the .PDFs pull data
>from a database? For example, when the user enters the serial number for
>the compressor, the fields listing the serial numbers for the cylinders
>and the cylinder specs are pulled from the database and autofilled.
If you can do it in Javascript, you can do it in a PDF! Which is to say,
it looks like you can do it.
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