I want to bring up my browser - put the URL of a PDF on a server that has fillable fields - and have the PDF automatically bring in the contents of an FDF file to populate the fields defined in the FDF file.
There is ADOBE documentation of doing something like this:
http://www.mydomain.com/abc.pdf#fdf=datafile.fdf
That's all I want to do. Simple.
In detail - in a PHP program I want to create the FDF file just using fopen and fwrites - no additional packages - then my JavaScript calls an already created PDF file on the web with the PDF when brought up on the server side automatically imports the FDF my program created a few seconds ago.
I do know about fdf_create in PHP but unfortunately the server I'm on is cpanel based and the hosting company cannot load a library for fdf_create related calls.
I cannot seem to get this working. I've called Adobe tech support. A few months ago I reached someone who actually said "You've reached the right person. Yes that is doable." and they confirmed what I wanted to do. But since then the Adobe people I call don't seem to understand what an FDF file is even though that is what Adobe uses to communicate and has it in their documentation as http://......abc.pdf#fdf=xxx.fdf
Now I've even eliminated the step/chance that I've not created my FDF file properly. I've gone into Acrobat Pro and done an extract to an .FDF file. Then I've tried http://www.myweb.com/abc.pdf#fdf=theAcrobatExtractedFile.fdf and it still ignores the contents of the FDF file.
I've also tried http://www.myweb.com/abc.pdf#fdf=http://www.myweb.com/extractedfile.fd f fully qualifying the location of the FDF file.
Help! This is important. Thank you.
Jay