Filling out PDF Forms on-line

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Hello,

I need to allow our users to be able to fill out an IRS W-4 form on our intranet web site, but I need to fill in their personal info first from a database so they can just make the necessary changes to exemptions etc.

I found the iTextSharp toolkit, but the example I found creates a file on the web servers hard drive, of the programatically filled out w-4, which I would like to avoid.

How can I manipulate the W-4 form in memory and then present it to the user for completion and printing in IE?

Thanks for any help,
Mike

Posted 1-Sep-10 7:04am

MichaelWhaley

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Simon_Whale 3-Sep-10 4:40am

is this a 3rd party form?

MichaelWhaley 7-Sep-10 14:32pm

Yes. It is fw4.pdf that I downloaded from the IRS's web site. I went ahead and used the iTextSharp toolkit. It does create a file on the server so I just gave it a file name that contains a timestamp to handle multiple users and added a subroutine to clean up the temp folder. I don't have very many users anyway and this will not be used very frequently.

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