Hi wba,
In my post of May 20 I mentioned 2 conditions of the PDF: the presence of
form fields and the enabling of user rights. I neglected a third condition.
When the form is rendered into a PDF, it may be rendered either as an
"interactive" or "printform" PDF. The latter is as it suggests, only for
printing. It appears that Legacy, by design or by accident, is rendering the
PDF as a printform and thus no interaction with the form is possible. An
interactive PDF should show a purple bar across the top of the document
(using Reader 8.1.5 anyway), which summarizes the usage rights. It will also
have a blue circle icon in the column along the left side of the document,
which can be used to list all the usage rights. For an example of this, go
to http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf?portlet=3. (In this case,
Reader will be embedded in your browser, but that makes no difference.)
It appears that Legacy is using software called "ComponentOne PDF Generator
8.0" and is generating an old version of the PDF standard (1.2 instead of
1.6). It may be that Legacy developers simply need to tweak their use of
this package to cause it to create the interactive version of this form. Or,
it may be that Legacy needs to upgrade to a newer version of ComponentOne
products.
Please file a bug report with Legacy. I suggest that it would technically be
an enhancement request rather than a true defect. It is more convenient to
fill out the form on-line, allowing later edits, than to print it and fill
it out by hand. This enhancement should apply to blank forms, but not to
most other Legacy reports, I would think.
Hope this helps.
Ward
----- Original Message -----
From: "wba" <wba...@yahoo.com>
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 8:57 AM
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents
Thanks. I have the Reader. I was going on the information in the Document
Security that said Filling in Form Fields: Allowed. I was under the
impression that the Standard and higher versions would allow me to Save it
after I filled in the form. All I wanted to do was to fill it out on the
screen and print it. --
--- On Wed, 5/20/09, Rebecca Williams <rebecca.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Rebecca Williams <rebecca.w...@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 10:01 AM
I believe you have to have Acrobat
Standard to fill in the form on your
computer screen and save it. There also might be a
.pdf form fill program
that is available to fill in .pdf forms.
If you have Acrobat you need to have the typewriter tool
bar on and selected
to fill in the different areas.
REbecca
-----Original Message-----
From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com
[mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com]
On Behalf
Of Dennis M. Kowallek
Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 9:17 AM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents
On Wed, 20 May 2009 05:55:17 -0700 (PDT), wba <wba...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>I have a question about PDF Documents.
>
>Reports --> Books/Other --> Blank Charts -->
Research Log.
>Legacy has the feature to create a blank Research Log
in PDF.
>
>My problem: Rather than print it and fill in the
information by hand, I
want to do it on the computer. However, it will not allow
me to fill in the
fields even though the Security Settings indicates that
filling in form
fields is allowed.
Apparently the PDF that Legacy generates does not have any
"form" fields
on it (even though it resembles a form).
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