Generate PDF based templates, and fill them in from data objects
- Someone with a form does a Print to PDF with all the spaces blank
- They get a data structure (schema) from another app or API
- Both the PDF and the data are loaded into the Form8sn UI, and they:
- Place boxes on the PDF page surfaces
- Add rules to partition the data and repeat PDF pages (plus running totals and the like)
- This is exported to a command file embedded in a modified version of the PDF
- A programmer can then pass the command file and data to the Form8sn SDK to get back a finished PDF
The PDF generation phase should be as fast as possible. If we can, it should be a streaming process so we don't need to load the whole PDF template or output into memory.
- PDFSharp - A modified version of the main project (so I can add or specialise bits)
- PortableGdi - A minimal version of
System.Drawing
to support PDFSharp. Based on GNU Portable.Net base libraries. - BasicImageFormFiller - GUI app to take scanned paper forms (in JPEG) and fill them in from arbitrary data, based on examples.
- TestApp - Console app scratch space
- PdfSharp.Charting - Currently unused.
- Form8snCore - File formats and filtering to produce PDFs from project files
- WebFormFiller - .Net MVC website and JS app for editing Form8sn projects
- Write some documentation
- Ensure the core PDFsharp and Form8snCore don't use GDI+ (important)
- Portable system.drawing
- JPEG reading and writing (
Portable.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormats.JpegReader.Load
) - Font reading & metrics (
PdfSharp.Drawing.XFontSource.GetOrCreateFromFile
) - Remove defunct platform specific calls in PDFsharp.
- Handle PDFs as input
- Decode PDF forms so we can use existing 'boxes'
- Embed Form8sn instructions in PDF files and handle those? (not important)
- Web-based form editor?
- Full suite of tests
To add new prefixes, see Form8snCore.DataExtraction.MappingActions.GetDataAtPath
and Form8snCore.HelpersAndConverters.DataPickerBuilder