Flex & LiveCycle & Tutorials 09 Sep 2006 01:09 pm
Creating Dynamic PDF Documents with XPAAJ
XPAAJ is a Java library for processing PDF documents. It’s similar to LiveCycle Forms to a certain degree, and it’s completely free for the Adobe enterprise customers (if you bought either Flex, ColdFusion, or any of the LiveCycle products). This tutorial shows you how to take data collected from a Flex interface and merge that data with a dynamic PDF form using XPAAJ. Click on the icon below to watch the tutorial,
on 21 Sep 2006 at 5:38 am 1.Weblycan Blog said …
Using Flex and XPAAJ to create PDF documents….
I’m sure it wont be long before we start seeing [View as PDF] buttons on a lot more RIAs. …
on 16 Apr 2007 at 11:34 pm 2.Bala said …
Great one. This one really helped me to understand a lot about the Flex / LiveCycle integration. Looking forward towards more such articles.
on 30 Apr 2007 at 12:16 pm 3.Mark said …
Loved the tutorial, thanks. We are trying to implement XPAAJ with a flex app of ours. We can not get the PDFs to display inline properly in Safari. We tried setting content type etc but nothing is working, do you have any ideas?? We have a large Mac user base and having a ton of PDFs littering the desktop is not an option. Our other site (different method) does get the PDFs to show in browser. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
on 22 Apr 2008 at 5:50 am 4.Miguel said …
I have one question,
If the pdf form was created using LiveCycle Designer and the resulting PDF form is reader extended, after merging data witht he PDF template, does the resulting PDF looses the extended attributes?
Thank you
on 01 May 2008 at 1:42 pm 5.Srini Manchikanti said …
This is an excellent article and cost effective solution to generate the PDF documents dynamically. I have a requirement to save the chart generated in the Flex UI as a PDF file. Do you know how to pass the Flex Chart to the PDF and how to bind this data in the PDF template. Appreciate any help.
Thank you.
on 05 May 2008 at 1:43 am 6.Billigflug said …
Many thanks for this tipp. We use it now to generate our pdf bills automatically..
on 26 May 2008 at 7:41 am 7.Andrew said …
Miguel, with 100% certainty, after merging with XPAAJ you do not lose reader extensions.
on 09 Sep 2008 at 2:01 am 8.Pauschalurlaub said …
Thats a pretty nice tipp! Thank you very much
on 09 Oct 2008 at 10:25 pm 9.martin911 said …
Interessting tutorial. Thanks a lot. But now on the Adobe link, publiched in the tutorial are linking now to the LiveCycle ES download page. Is XPAAJ now included in LiveCycle. This is a 2.7 GB File a lot of download for only a xpaaj.jar file. In your sourcecode for this example it is not include. So now where I can download this lib.
Thank you for your help in advance!
on 03 Apr 2009 at 7:26 am 10.Kevin said …
I’m also looking for the XPAAJ.jar…is this no longer available for free? Where can we get it?
on 24 Apr 2009 at 1:54 am 11.sv said …
Am not able to download the zip files given above. Looks like there is an error. Could you please help
on 24 Sep 2009 at 1:00 pm 12.schulung said …
Hi, I found lots of good information in your blog. thank you
on 07 Dec 2009 at 7:35 pm 13.Vikram said …
Adobe discontinued support for xpaaj.jar, wondering if someone has a copy of the jar file that they can email me on vsharma5-at-gmail.com
on 08 Jan 2010 at 12:21 pm 14.vlad said …
Download from here.
http://rapidshare.com/files/332319496/xpaaj.zip.html
How can put an image into pdf using xpaaj library?
on 08 Jan 2010 at 12:27 pm 15.vlad said …
Or download from if first link will expire:
http://rapidshare.com/files/332321208/xpaaj.zip