What solutions, if any, have people found for printing pre-defined forms from Jmix? In this case, it’s a medical claim form I need to print, filled with data from the Jmix application (on Jmix 1.5.x).
I have the form available as a marked up PDF, but the reports add-on does not support PDF as a template - sadly!
Someone else must have run into this need already, so I’d like to avoid wheel-reinventing!
Not Jmix, but in a previous job we took a graphic image of the empty form, then generated a PDF with the image and text overlaying in the proper locations. The blank form would change at most once per year, so not too bad to keep it updated.
Eh, that’s pretty complex. I have a PDF of the form, with fields defined where data needs to go, but I’m sure someone has done this before, so I’m curious what solutions have been found.
Have you looked into OpenPDF? I use that for PDF generation w/ Jmix because we don’t have a budget to license iText. It is a little tedious, but for my project the price is right. It appears OpenPDF may be able to open and modify PDF forms: OpenPDF Forms Examples. That may be more “manual” than you wanted, however.