The good news is that this can still be done using JavaScript. It can certainly be done, especially if a VBA macro is used, but it’s not what I would do. This is simple to do for a small files, but if you are dealing with 100 records of 10 fields each, we are talking about a pretty extensive row of data. The blank spaces between the entries in the list above are TAB characters – remember, we need a tab separated text file for this to work. Our datafile would then look like this: Firstname_1 Lastname_1ğirstname_2 Lastname_2 The data in the PDF file would be organized like this: Firstname_1 Let’s do a simple example with a small table: Firstname If we would use the method from above, the whole form data would have to be rewritten into a spreadsheet with just one row of data. What if we want to import rows of data into one document? Let’s assume, we have a table in our document with 20 rows, and we have a spreadsheet that has the same 20 rows, and we want to import that data. We’ve talked about batch importing data from an Excel document into a PDF form before: īack then, the idea was that we would have a spreadsheet with rows of data, and every row would be imported into a new copy of the document (e.g.
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