Editing PDF from a Webpage

[gtg93]

I'm creating a Wordpress site that is an online training course, and at the end, I want the user to be able to type their name into a box and print out a personalised certificate.

 

The certificate is already created as a PDF, but can be converted if need be. Basically I want an editable region in the certificate document, that will match whatever is entered on the webpage, and then the user can download the PDF / print it off.

 

If anyone has any idea of how this can be done, a link or a quick how to would be appreciated.

 

Thanks

[dhicks]

I'm creating a Wordpress site that is an online training course, and at the end, I want the user to be able to type their name into a box and print out a personalised certificate.

 

For this kind of thing, I've always used ReportLab's open source Python PDF creation library:

 

ReportLab - Content to PDF Solutions

 

If you don't have permissions to run scripts on your webhost, ReportLab do offer a hosted solution that might meet your needs, although I don't have any expertience with that myself.

[gtg93]

Thanks - I'll have a look at that , hopefully will sort the issue. If not i'm tempted to just upload the certificate as a word doc, with edit protection enabled and just an editable region where their name goes

[Arthur]

Another option would be to use CSS (@media print) to change how the webpage looks when printed. The user could then save it to a PDF themselves, print it out on paper, save it to Evernote/OneNote etc. and you wouldn't have to install anything on your server.

 

How to set up a print style sheet « Smashing Magazine

[SYNACK]

Does it need to be a pdf, html5 canvas plus an svg graphic should work on most newer systems.

[dhicks]

Does it need to be a pdf, html5 canvas plus an svg graphic should work on most newer systems.

 

Actually, if I remember correctly, Mozilla's PDF.js lets you add elements to a PDF document in-browser, so you can build up a printable PDF document client-side:

 

PDF.js

 

This is the component that Firefox uses for viewing PDF documents, and seems to be pretty comprehensive.

[gtg93]

Cheers guys - not got to this part of the site just yet, but will report back once it's sorted.