George,
We are working with Laptop's and TabletPC's in Online and Offline environments
with (validations) fill-in / fill-out PDF forms in Acrobat Reader and Acrobat Approval.
All environments, intranet, extranet, internet and multi-user are real-time online and
if there are users with stand-alone laptop's or TabletPC's, they work with download and
upload to the centralsystem / online environments and backends with one or different
databases.
For your idea, medical specialists in hospitals and outdoor insurance inspectors,
tax inspectors, etc. can work on a TabletPC, Online and offline.
They are using handwriting text and data at the same time and save this in the form
and send this to one or several databases (depending on the field definitions).
Online : network, wireless, mobile on backends Access, SQL, Oracle, SAP R/3.
Offline : by download on the local TabletPC or Laptop under w2000/xp, and at the
end of the day (or mobile) an upload to the central system.
In your case.
The number of PDF pages does not matter, it's depending on the the number of
input/output fields in the PDF to the database. Access about 250, SQL and Oracle 1030.
On Laptop or TabletPC you can configurate (w2000/xp) your own server and databases !
If you want to try a free trial/demo of a very unique and generic software product, go to
the PDF trial/demo page of www.pdf-webforms.com. If you need advice or you have
questions, let me know and mail me.
Best regards,
Ben Koolhaas
Comsysko Automatisering B.V.
F.B. Singel 117, 123, 125
3311 PC Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Tel. : +31 (0) 78 - 639.32.32
Fax. : +31 (0) 78 - 631.06.95
Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.comsysko.com
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Hello,
I am new both to this list and to creating PDF files. I have been
looking for some help, without success, on what I thought would be some
basic tasks. I have sent e-mails to Adobe and I've tried calling them.
Adobe has not responded to my e-mails and I gave up after being on hold
for a very long time when I called.
I have several forms that I originally created in MS Excel and have
recently converted to PDF using Adobe Acrobat Pro 6.0. That part went
smoothly enough. I sell my forms to home inspectors to use either in
the field on a notebook or laptop or in the office on a desktop PC. The
PDF versions look far nicer and are much easier to use than the Excel
versions. So, here are my problems and questions:
1. My reports sell in the $10-$50 price range. My customers are not
willing to spend hundreds of dollars for a program to allow them to fill
in the forms. Most of my customers already have MS Excel so that hasn't
been too much of a problem but very few (if any) have a PDF
writer/editor. Version 6 of the Acrobat Reader allows filling in forms
but the information cannot be saved with the forms. Do any of you know
of an easy and inexpensive way for a user of my forms to be able to view
the forms, fill them in, print, and save them?
2. Assuming I can get past my first hurdle, do any of you know of a way
to put these forms on a Pocket PC? Again, the users need to be able to
fill in the form, print, and save. I do not have a Pocket PC (yet) but
I have tested Acrobat Reaer 6 for Pocket PC and it does not even allow
filling in of the forms. I don't know of any way to load the full
version of Acrobat Pro onto a Pocket PC. If there is a forms program
for Pocket PC out there I haven't been able to find it.
3. My last question is, do any of you do any programming for hire and
would be interested in working with me on developing a report that could
be used on Pocket PC or laptop. If so, it would not necessarily have to
be in PDF format. I would also eventually like to have the ability to
record the form data to a database.
By the way, my main report form is eleven pages. The other forms are
one to four pages each.
Anyone interested in doing some programming for me may call me at
419-885-2631 or send an e-mail to me with you phone number and I'll call
you.
Thanks!
George Wells
Best Inspectors Network
P.O. Box 675
Lambertville, Michigan 48144-0675
e-mail: george"AT"msi.ms. (replace "AT" with @).
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