Passing form data to a PDF for printing

I have found a few articles online about setting this up, but
having no luck
on getting the data to pass and display within the pdf file..
Can anyone offer suggestions or some good tutorial sites i
can continue to
read about?
thanks...
ASP, SQL2005, DW8 VBScript

I'm not really familiar with ColdFusion, but if it were a normal server side component the field would be available in the request header under a name something like this:
FormName[0].SubFormName[0].FieldName[0]
Chris
Adobe Enterprise Developer Support

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