# Creating and Filling PDF Forms

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/creating-and-filling-pdf-forms/138266>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 21, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/creating-and-filling-pdf-forms/138266 "2008-05-21T15:28:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Mark\_ASRichman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Mark\_ASRichman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mark_ASRichman)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/creating-and-filling-pdf-forms/138266/1 "2008-05-21T15:28:20Z")

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I am looking for two solutions:

1. open source cross-platform alternative to Adobe LiveCycle Designer  
to create PDF forms
2. method to fill in these PDF form fields from Rails and serve up the  
resulting PDF file

Thanks,  
Mark

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**Author:** ![Mark\_ASRichman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/13edae/32.png) [@Mark\_ASRichman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Mark_ASRichman)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 5:00pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/creating-and-filling-pdf-forms/138266/2 "2008-05-21T17:00:46Z")

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On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 06:27 -0700, Mark A. Richman wrote:

> I am looking for two solutions:
> 
> 1. open source cross-platform alternative to Adobe LiveCycle Designer  
> to create PDF forms

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## I use [openoffice.org](http://openoffice.org) to create PDF forms

> 1. method to fill in these PDF form fields from Rails and serve up the  
> resulting PDF file

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many different techniques discussed here…

[http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoGeneratePDFs](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/HowtoGeneratePDFs)

Craig