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Is there a free component to automaticaly fill pdf forms from Delphi ? I have pdf like this https://www.dropbox.com/s/l0t3caunxtdav2l/P3.pdf?dl=0 and I want programically check the checkboxes, fill the text fields etc

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The first place I would search is to see wether Adobe Reader has automation for this, when I did I first found this: Acrobat Forms Data Format (FDF) Toolkit
If you download the Windows version, and look in the FDF Toolkit for Windows\Headers and Libraries\WIN\FdfAcX\ folder, you'll find a DLL that you can register with regsvr32.exe and then access over COM. If you use the Import Type-Library tool from Delphi, you can have it generate a COM/ActiveX wrapper, so you can use the FdfApp and FdfDoc objects.
I should look more into the documentation, but from a quick glance at FDFACX.IDL, it looks like you can use FDFNextFieldName to find out about field names, and FDFSetValue to set their value.

Answer 2

Not sure if it is free. Have you looked at PDFToolKit?
If you happen to, here is a snippet of code illustrating:
procedure PrintReceipt(bSaveToFile: Boolean; iInvoicesid: Integer; mDatabase: TAlpineAdoConnection; eaObject: TEAObject);
var
pdf: TgtPDFDocument;
begin
try
pdf := TgtPDFDocument.create(self);
pdf.LoadFromFile('c:\temp\mypdf.pdf');
pdf.TextOut('<font size="8">'+'Hello world'+'</font>',630,170);
pdf.SaveToFile('c:\temp\updated.pdf');
finally
pdf.free;
end;
end;