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My guess is you never could get the Omniform fields to work, could you. I talked to the Omniform people at great length about this and they said they had no intentions of making them work in a PDF file. It would be good news if they were in error. Dab -----Original Message----- From: Day, Tim G. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 1:49 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [PDF-Forms] Automatically recognizing form fields PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __________________________________________________________________ I hate to disagree, but I'm using OmniForm Premium version 5.0.029 and many times I've had to delete the automatically-generated fields from the PDF version of the form that I've created in OmniForm, because I wanted to do my own fields. Here is the procedure that I recommend in order to automatically generate form fields for a PDF form: 1. Print the original PDF version of the form and scan it into OmniForm. 2. OmniForm will automatically indicate where it thinks the form fields should be. 3. Convert the OmniForm file to a PDF file (which is very easy because OmniForm allows the user to do a "Save As" in order to save the OmniForm file directly to a PDF file). 4. In Acrobat, use the "Replace Pages" command to replace the scanned background with the original PDF file (to improve image quality and to preclude having to make corrections to the scanned form). 5. Adjust the form fields on the PDF to ensure that they are in the correct position. -----Original Message----- From: David A. Beck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 2:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PDF-Forms] Automatically recognizing form fields PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __________________________________________________________________ When you save an Omniform form as a PDF, it loses all it's form fields. An Omniform form only works as an Omniform Form. Dab -----Original Message----- From: Stephen M Aylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 12:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PDF-Forms] Automatically recognizing form fields PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __________________________________________________________________ Scansoft OMNIForm - does a pretty fair job .... its far from perfect, and will require a small learning curve, but cuts down considerably on the customization time for most forms. all the best, steve > > I have a large number of PDF forms that are not interactive. The company I > work for usually just prints the form, and fills it out by hand. > > Is there any tool I can use that will automatically recognize portions of > the pdf file where form fields Should be? > > Basically, I need something that will scan the document, recognize the > portions of the document where interactive form fields will go (i.e. boxes, > lines, radio buttons etc...) and make them interactive. > > I am desparate to find this software if it exists. I have been searching the > web for over a week now with no luck. > > > thanks > -caleb > > > To change your subscription: > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html > > > > To change your subscription: > http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html > > > > To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
