I have several PDF forms that can be filled in via a web browser. Most of the data for the form is located in a VFP database. Using a commercial VFP CGI program (FoxWeb) I've been able to capture the info not in the database on an HTML form run it through CGI, query the database, and create an FDF file which is automatically launched and the pdf form is nicely filled in with all the data. This implementation is nice when it works, but it's terribly unreliable. It causes my users headaches because they have to be setup just so, the form won't launch into an existing browser window, and you have to close the acrobat plugin everytime to launch a new form...whew...

What does work flawlessly are plain pdf files. I'd like to merge the data into the pdf form server side and then point to the created pdf file. Can I merge this with VFP? I know you can do it with C++, but I don't know C++ that well and the Adobe documentation is not very clear on the process.

Any suggestions/experience with this?

TIA

/Chris