[seam-dev] PDF fill-in-forms support

Hi, Do you think that people would find use for Seam support of populating fields of pre-generated PDFs? One scenario would be if you have a PDF with a complex layout that you don't want to generate every time. You could create the layout once and define the field names in Acrobat and then place it in an accessable location (some sort of permanent DocumentStore) and then have a tag like <p:form URL="#{formURL}"> <p:field name="name" value="#{person.name}"/> </p:fillInForm> The tag would then fetch the template, populate the fields and output the generated PDF. The code itself in iText is very simple (example operating on files): PdfReader reader = new PdfReader("c:/temp/form.pdf"); PdfStamper stamp = new PdfStamper(reader, new FileOutputStream("c:/temp/out.pdf")); AcroFields f = stamp.getAcroFields(); f.setField("person.name", "Cthulhu von R'yeh"); stamp.setFormFlattening(true); stamp.close(); Perhaps even some plugin-tag that would enable to save the generated PDF to a database. Or something. --- Nik