25.05.2017
Fill PDF forms in an AEM Service
If you want to provide a download of customized PDF files, you can go the full-fledged way and buy into the Adobe world or build a slim custom solution which brings no additional cost. This post shows a simple usecase where a PDF form is uploaded to DAM and later filled inside an OSGi service and delivered to the user by a Servlet. Dependencies: Apache PDFBox There are multiple open source PDF libraries we could use, but in the end Apache PDFBox1 is the weapon of choice.