pdffiller

Take an existing PDF Form and data and PDF Filler will create a new PDF with all given fields populated.

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PDF Filler (Node.js)
A node.js PDF form field data filler and FDF generator toolkit. This essentially is a wrapper around the PDF Toolkit library PDF ToolKit.
PDF Filler requires the PDF ToolKit which can be found here: PDF ToolKit

Examples

1.Fill PDF with existing FDF Data

````javascript var pdfFiller = require( 'pdffiller' );
var sourcePDF = "test/test.pdf"; var destinationPDF = "test/testcomplete.pdf";
var data = {
"last_name" : "John",
"first_name" : "Doe",
"date" : "Jan 1, 2013",
"football" : "Off",
"baseball" : "Yes",
"basketball" : "Off",
"hockey" : "Yes",
"nascar" : "Off"
};
pdfFiller.fillForm( sourcePDF, destinationPDF, data, function(err) {
if (err) throw err;
console.log("In callback (we're done)."); 
});
````
This will take the test.pdf, fill the fields with the data values and create a complete filled in PDF (test
filledin.pdf)

  1. Generate FDF Template from PDF

````javascript var pdfFiller = require( 'pdffiller' );
var sourcePDF = "test/test.pdf";
var FDF
data = pdfFiller.generateFDFTemplate( sourcePDF, function(err, fdfData) {
if (err) throw err;
console.log(fdfData);
});
````
This will print out this ```{
"last_name" : "",
"first_name" : "",
"date" : "",
"football" : "",
"baseball" : "",
"basketball" : "",
"hockey" : "",
"nascar" : ""
};```

  1. Generate FDF Template from PDF

````javascript var pdfFiller = require( 'pdffiller' );
var sourcePDF = "test/test.pdf";
var FDFdata = pdfFiller.generateFDFTemplate( sourcePDF, function(err, fdfData) {
if (err) throw err;
console.log(fdfData);
});
````
This will print out this
{
    "last_name" : "",
    "first_name" : "",
    "date" : "",
    "football" : "",
    "baseball" : "",
    "basketball" : "",
    "hockey" : "",
    "nascar" : ""
};

  1. Map form fields to PDF fields

````javascript var pdfFiller = require( 'pdffiller' ),
sourcePDF = "test/test.pdf",
FDF_data,
destinationPDF =  "test/test_complete.pdf";
var conversionMap = {
"lastName": "last_name",
"firstName": "first_name",
"Date": "date",
"lastName": "last_name",
"footballField": "football",
"bballField": "basketball",
"baseballField": "baseball",
"hockeyField": "hockey",
"nascarField": "nascar"
};
var FormFields = {
"lastName" : "John",
"firstName" : "Doe",
"Date" : "Jan 1, 2013",
"footballField" : "Off",
"baseballField" : "Yes",
"bballField" : "Off",
"hockeyField" : "Yes",
"nascarField" : "Off"
};
pdfFiller.mapForm2PDF( data, convMap, function(err, mappedFields) {
if (err) throw err;

console.log(mappedFields);
}); ````
This will print out the object below. ```{
"last_name" : "John",
"first_name" : "Doe",
"date" : "Jan 1, 2013",
"football" : "Off",
"baseball" : "Yes",
"basketball" : "Off",
"hockey" : "Yes",
"nascar" : "Off"
};```

  1. Convert fieldJson to FDF data

````javascript var pdfFiller = require( 'pdffiller' );
var sourcePDF = "test/test.pdf"; var fieldJson =
{
    "title" : "last_name",
    "fieldfieldType": "Text",
    "fieldValue": "Doe"
},
{
    "title" : "first_name",
    "fieldfieldType": "Text",
    "fieldValue": "John"
},
{
    "title" : "date",
    "fieldType": "Text",
    "fieldValue": "Jan 1, 2013"
},
{
    "title" : "football",
    "fieldType": "Button",
    "fieldValue": false
},
{
    "title" : "baseball",
    "fieldType": "Button",
    "fieldValue": true
},
{
    "title" : "basketball",
    "fieldType": "Button"
    "fieldValue": false
},
{
    "title" : "hockey",
    "fieldType": "Button"
    "fieldValue": true
},
{
    "title" : "nascar",
    "fieldType": "Button"
    "fieldValue": false
}
;
var FDFData = pdfFiller.convFieldJson2FDF( data ); console.log(FDFData) ````
This will print out this ```` {
"last_name" : "John",
"first_name" : "Doe",
"date" : "Jan 1, 2013",
"football" : "Off",
"baseball" : "Yes",
"basketball" : "Off",
"hockey" : "Yes",
"nascar" : "Off"
}; ````