How to Create a PDF Form in ColdFusion

ColdFusion is a Web development language used to make interactive websites that can interact with servers to gather and display information. Adobe, a company very well known for its PDF files and free Acrobat Reader software, owns the ColdFusion application. After Adobe purchased ColdFusion, it added the ability to manipulate PDF forms using ColdFusion. In versions after ColdFusion 8, users can create a PDF form in another application and then embed the document in a Web page as a form the website visitor can manipulate.

Instructions

1

Create your desired form using either Adobe Acrobat or Adobe LiveCycle Designer.

2

Open ColdFusion. Connect to your site and create a new ColdFusion document.

3

Embed the PDF form in the document using the tag and supplying the PDF file path in the required source parameter. To make the form interactive in the website, the action parameter should be "Populate" and no destination should be specified.

4

To populate specific form fields, use the tag. This tag takes a name and value parameter and does not require a closing tag.