Access and Adobe

[Ivan Arjona]

I would like to know if there is a way to link from a
Data Base to a PDF File.
How would I do it?

 

[Larry Linson]

I would like to know if there is a way to link from a
Data Base to a PDF File.

Do you mean Link as in a Linked Table? No way to do that, AFAIK.

If you mean something else, please clarify.

Larry Linson
Microsoft Access MVP

 

[grep]

Actually, I think the question is a good one, from two perspectives:

1. Adobe Acrobat has the capability to define fields. These fields are
individually identified, can have default values, and are of different
types. I've never been able to figure out what the hell all those
features are there for. I can't figure out how to pass the values out of
those forms, and into a database somewhere. Ostensibly, there is a way,
though. So, the first question is, can Acrobat documents pass data to an
Access database?

2. The second question is simpler, perhaps. Is there some way to get
Access to print reports in PDF format? It'd sure beat trying to
pretty-print something in HTML or RTF, only to discover that much of the
formatting doesn't transfer.

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