How do I dynamically populate a pdf series

I have designed a pdf form with 40+ fields, two of which I want to populate with client provided data, currently the client provided data has come from excel and has been saved as txt (tab delaminated) data.
From this point as the headers are matching the form so I can use Tools>More Form Option>Manage Form Data>Import Data to individually assign the records values to the pdf form.
Can this task be automated fo that for each record in my import .txt file the data is imported and a separate pdf is saved as a different file so that i have a set of pdfs for users filled in as required?

This process is known as Mail Merging, and I've developed a tool for Acrobat that does exactly that.
Have a look here: http://try67.blogspot.com/2011/09/acrobat-mail-merge-and-email.html

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I am trying to dynamically display a list rooftop units to which are associated to each product our company produces.
Our website is database driven and each product has a link to a PDF file which explains the product, and a "List" of each rooftop unit which this product can be used upon. This "List" of units is changing and are updated constantly. We are currently manually updating each PDF. We have thousands and it has become unmanageable. In some cases this "List" may contain only be several units, in others the "List" will contain hundreds. Additionally, the rooftop units when described are anywhere from 6 to 50 characters long. Therefore, we can't just dedicate a set window to populate the information. The list must flow into the window in columns and be smart enough to best consolidate and wrap itself, so not to use countless pages. We prefer the first page to describe the product and the second page to contain all the associated units in columns with an auto font capability.
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I have figured out how to create the "List" in a comma separated string, but it is very confusing and hard to read. Does anyone know how to list the data in a table... in flowing columns similar to an Excel spreadsheet?

I understand why you need updated running headers in your book. To a sighted reader these serve as a guide to where you are and help you find things quickly. In addition, if you are exporting your data to XML or HTML from the tagged PDF it would also be important to have these in the proper location.
But for accessibility purposes, it doesn't have to be there because the screen reader reads everything in linear order, line by line. No one is looking at the page. A user listening to the screen reader read the page is going to hear this heading, just before the actual word itself. So they will hear the first word on the page twice. It's not the end of the world if it's there, but such headings are not necessary for accessibility unless they are not repetitive and contain information that is not otherwise available.
So I would say, fine if you need them or want them there, it's just one word.
I think you should try exporting your book to PDF (or even just a chapter of the book) and look at the tags panel in Acrobat to see if you are getting the result you want. I can't tell you exactly what you should do to get those results, you are using a plug-in I don't have.
I can tell you I didn't have to add the headers to any article at all, they just automatically export if the other articles in the file are added and you don't select the header style option "not for export as XML."
You may not experience the same results with your plug-in, but I think it will probably work the same way.
Give it a try and best of luck.

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Hi friends,
I need to to create a invoice page using Adobe PDF dynamic Form.
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Hi Sara,
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Best Regards,
Marcel

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hi,
all the UI elements in the adobe form are generally connected to your web-dynpro Context.
whatever you type in the online adobe form is reflected in the respective context attributes of the dynpro Context of the view where "ur Interactive form UI element is".
that means you can yourself fill the contents of ur interactive form by working on the get/set methods of the context attributes.
Likewise you can clear the form by setting all context attributes to blank eg ""
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*dataSource
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if you still have doubts.
give me your gmail mail id. i 'll send a tutorial.
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I need to move a doc from a Word file to some kind of help file (chm, webhelp, whatever). The Word doc has a bunch of tables where most of the data is the same for each customer. Unfortunately, the software has been updated in such a way as to make two of the columns customer specific.
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I can do this locally with ease on a testing server, but I am currently trying to use another host that uses cross-platform compatibility so i can use PHP and the pdftk.exe to achieve this, as that is why I am having to serve up an XML file b/c we use a Linux server for our website, and cant execute the exe.
Now that I am testing the other server (cross-platform host), just to use them to do the PDF handling (and it's only $5 per month) I am having problems with getting READ, WRITE, EXECUTE permissions..
Si guess a good question to ask is can PHP do the same procedure as the pdftk.exe, and i can eleminate it.
or how in the heck can i get this data from the DB into a blank PDF form, like i have described??
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Populating a LiveCycle PDF with PHP and MySQL
http://www.andrewheiss.com/Tutorials?page=LiveCycle_PDFs_and_MySQL
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http://accesspdf.com/html_pdf_form/

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Edited by: user445990 on May 24, 2011 9:19 PM

Hello,
You request is not clear. Do you need to display the LOV or not ? In other words, what is the goal of your record group ?
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I would like to send prefilled data into the xdp/pdf file.
The starting point would be a web page, with a link that directs the user to the xdp/pdf file and prefill that form with some data from the url link. Then let the person complete the rest of the form and click on a submit button which would send the form to a url so I can process the data into a datbase.
I did this in the past with Acrobat 5.
Now I have Acrobat Pro 10 with lifecycle designer.
I am looking for tutorial on this material.
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Thanks for your reply... but i don't believe that does not apply to PDFs and XDP files created in Life Cycle... unless I missed something. Please advise.
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