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I've implemented a rough form edit mode to support PDF forms here: https://github.com/plainlab/plainmerge/releases/tag/v0.0.9.
The drag-and-drop part is doable I think, but not a quick win though.
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Just tried the 0.0.12. Nice β it was fast for me on this M1 Mac so I didn't see a loading indicator.
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Thanks for the suggestions, let me see what I can do about that π€
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@fancyham could you elaborate more about how the form would work? The Excel fields are not text annotations, it will render with the real data from Excel file. Say you have 1000 rows in Excel file, it will generate 1000 different PDF pages. So I suppose that you can just move a field to the PDF form field you want and all is good?
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Imagine the pdf highlighted form fields on the page, and you could drag the excel fields to them to connect inputs to the form fields theyβd populate when exported. Then each row of the excel spreadsheet becomes its own PDF (perhaps with a filename pulled from the spreadsheet) but with form fields filled out with the connected columns from the spreadsheet. Check out PDFzero.com/merge for an example of what Iβm talking about. Yours would be like a GUI version.
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I see, so drag and drop the field into position seems like a workaround for now. Thanks for your clarification!
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Something like this - drag and drop as the primary way to connect input columns to existing form fields.
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Got the gist now. Thanks. π
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Nice. One tricky thing for my test PDF was that the field names are not always the same as the label on the PDF itself.
Not easy to solve though. Fortunately, I was able to see field names using Acrobat Pro to tell which fields to match with the inputs.
It was pretty hard to find the right field just because there were so many on my PDF ("SBA form 641") β If it's possible to have a search/filter for the field names, that'd be helpful for finding the right one.
(Also, it might just be this build but I wasn't able to preview or output anything)
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It will take a while for big documents, I should make a loading indicator for it though. Could you try the latest release? I have no problem with the SBA form so far, except a delay time.
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Related Issues (15)
- Does not work on M1 Macs HOT 2
- Drag & drop snap
- Support QR code rendering
- Support barcode rendering HOT 1
- Feature requests: Mail merge file names, Field styling, preview all entries, save plainmerge work, etc. HOT 1
- Using one of the mail merge fields for the file name
- Support custom fonts
- Support manual color code HOT 1
- Custom fonts doesn't work on Windows
- Support export / import Canvas
- Built-in fonts don't support all Unicode characters
- Support all installed fonts on a users system
- Can't output PDFs consistently HOT 3
- Support send out emails with PDF attachment
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