Anyone using a 3rd party product to basically merge data and a PDF fillable form  to produce a merged PDF form

We use iTextSharp. It works, but the process can be a real pain, depending on who creates the PDF. We use it most commonly for IRS forms, and they have NO consistency to how the fields are named from year to year. The other challenge is that sometimes they will change the valid values (the radio button which specifies which quarter you are filing for might use ABCD as values, or 1234, or sometimes they aren't radio buttons at all but 4 individual check boxes). Just trying to figure out what to do to make those items work requires manually filling out the form, then examining the underlying values in something like Acrobat or the PDFill PDF Tools.
Basically, you need to know the internal name for the field so you can set its value.

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Anyone using a 3rd party product to basically merge data and a PDF fillable form  to produce a merged PDF form

Thank you, we to have the same issues with our 941 and 941sb, where the end user has to click on the .xdp file review it then they have to save as a .PDF. It sound like iTextSharp will complete the process by actually creating the merged pdf. I will check it out again thank you.

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Anyone using a 3rd party product to basically merge data and a PDF fillable form  to produce a merged PDF form

Thank you, we to have the same issues with our 941 and 941sb, where the end user has to click on the .xdp file review it then they have to save as a .PDF. It sound like iTextSharp will complete the process by actually creating the merged pdf. I will check it out again thank you.

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