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I want to fill a PDF form from my MS-Access 2003 .mdb project. The PDF has been created with AdobeLifeCycle Designer ES 8.2, all fields have significant names. However, the users who will run the PDf-fillingfunctionnality don't have LifeCycle installed but only Adobe Reader 9.5 instead (might migrate to AdobeReader X soon, I would like my code to be a little bit future proof).

How can I implement this? Most threads that I've seen on the Web redirect to the official Adobe SDKdocumentation, which is completely a mess when you're only doing VBA.

Thank you.

vba ms-access pdf pdf-form

edited Nov 13 '12 at 16:45 asked Nov 13 '12 at 13:56

Finally managed to get something working after merging some lines of code. Here it is. It works with theAdobe Acrobat 9.0 Type Library set as reference in my VBA project.

Dim FileNm, gApp, avDoc, pdDoc, jso

FileNm = "c:\form.pdf" 'File location

Set gApp = CreateObject("AcroExch.app")

Set avDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.AVDoc")

If avDoc.Open(FileNm, "") Then

Set pdDoc = avDoc.GetPDDoc()

Set jso = pdDoc.GetJSObject

jso.getField("topmostSubform[0].Page1[0].fieldName[0]").value = "myValue"

pdDoc.Save PDSaveIncremental, FileNm 'Save changes to the PDF document

pdDoc.Close

End If

'Close the PDF; the True parameter prevents the Save As dialog from showing

avDoc.Close (True)

'Some cleaning

Set gApp = Nothing

Set avDoc = Nothing

Set pdDoc = Nothing

Set jso = Nothing

Note that topmostSubform[0].Page1[0] is the default name that Adobe LiveCycle Designer gives to yourmain PDF document, while fieldName[0] is the name of your field. If you have multiple fields with thesame name, Adobe LiveCycle Designer automatically adds index numbers so you can easily loop throughyour fields.

edited Dec 11 '12 at 20:20 answered Nov 13 '12 at 15:10

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