[python-win32] Python interacting with Adobe

[Tim Golden]

>> I have a protocol which is in Adobe Acrobat format 
>containing data entry
>> field which I would like to fill in automatically with the 
>values calculated
>> from my program.
>> 
>> Does anyone know if you can enter the values into an Adobe 
>file straight
>> from a python program?
>> And if you can: How would you determine the field to enter 
>the value into
>> (can you get their order some how)?
>> 
>> If any one knows of some sort of documentation on this that 
>would be great!
>> 
>> Thank you for any help you can provide concerning this matter
>
>Check if reportlab can do that. http://reportlab.org

This is one of these things that comes up from time to
time, and unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any
*free* toolkit which will read / manipulate Acrobat files.
(I'm quite happy to be contradicted here). There are
several toolkits which will *generate* Acrobat files,
most notably Reportlab. Reportlab do offer tools to
read and manipulate, but they're pay-for licenses, and
quite expensive as far as I can remember.

Of course, if your application allows for the
re-generation of the entire document with the
values filled in in the appropriate places, then
Reportlab is probably for you: the example-of-the-month
on the top right of their homepage (reportlab.org)
usually showcases this kind of thing.

TJG


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