Integrating RenderX XSL FO Technology With iText for High Performance Dynamic Forms Generation

This paper presents a complete, generic framework for creating modifiable, flowing PDF forms, based on XML content and standard XSL templates. It requires no programming to generate dynamic, fill-able, custom PDF forms by mapping some RenderX XSL FO extensions to form elements. Recently RenderX has seen many opportunities arise for creating "Dynamic" forms. Dynamic because both the shape and the content of the form may depend on the actual content. This paper presents a method used for generating dynamic forms using RenderX's XEP, an XSL FO formatting engine, combined with the iText library for PDF manipulation to produce dynamic, fill-able, custom forms in a high-volume, multi-threaded application.