Form mapper
August 18, 2006
A friend of mine recently released a new product - http://www.formmapper.com. What’s neat about this is that it allows non-programmers the ability to take PDF forms, draw field boundaries on the form, then associate data fields from XML files with those field boundaries. Once that’s done, the XML data can be merged to create new PDF files with the data from the XML files populating the fields. I’ve not seen anything like it before, and Jost (the author) is quite a whiz with this stuff.
The other rather neat thing about it is that it’s a bit of a hybrid system. The front end is all Windows .NET interface stuff, and the rendering is Java-based with XEP (from renderx.com). While there might be a .NET-based version of XEP at some point, rather than wait, Jost has married the best of each world together in a cool little product.
If your work involves any data forms fillout, you might want to give Form Mapper a free trial run.
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