Saving FDF data via ASP to be opened in a different PDF

[Rob_Hecker.@adobeforums.com]

I'm a graphic designer, not a coder, but I have managed to create a web-based PDF form that submits the FDF to an ASP page that routes it to an email address. My problem now is that the receiving party needs to open the FDF in a different web-based PDF before submiting it to a final destination, and I can't figure out how to do this.

In other words: We sell widgets, but the retailers who buy our widgets have to go through their central headquarters. Only central headquarters can place the order with us. So I created a PDF that the retailers can access on the web. Their order gets submitted via FDF data to an ASP page that sends the FDF to the central headquarters. Central headquarters will edit the data and then submit it to our processing people. So the submit button and some fields on the PDF version the central headquarters accesses needs to be a little different from the version the retailers access.

I'm using Acrobat 6 Pro and NT 4 servers. The retailers and central headquarters use Acrobat Reader 5 or 6.

Thanks for any insight!

Rob

[George_Johnson@adobeforums.com]

What you need to do is alter the value of the /F key in the FDF. The value of the /F key tells Acrobat what PDF to open and populate with the data in the FDF. If you're using the FDF Toolkit, you'd open the original, use FDFSetFile to specify the URL of the PDF that the central headquarters folks will use, and forward the modified FDF.

George

[Rob_Hecker.@adobeforums.com]

I do have the FDF toolkit (I hhave an Adobe partner membership) but I balk at asking our IT dept. to install the components on the server so my ASP code can access the library. I was (still am!) hoping that I can change /F via my submitForm routine (without installing the toolkit). I tried setting cpath and I tried the method below. Didn't work. Any thoughts?

this.submitForm({
cURL: "http://65.173.248.163/app_nba/router1.asp#FDF",
'tried like this-
'cPath: "http://65.173.248.163/app_nba/app_rep.pdf"
then like this-
FDFSetFile: "http://65.173.248.163/app_nba/app_rep.pdf"
});

[George_Johnson@adobeforums.com]

There's nothing you can do with the submitForm method that will cause the /F key to be replaced. You have to modify the FDF on the server after you've received it.

George

[Rob_Hecker.@adobeforums.com]

George,

Thanks for letting me know. I'll stop trying to find a way to do it that way.

Rob