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On Jan 23, 2004, at 4:34 AM, Robert Ameeti wrote:
Never said it was. Mark had stated that he hadn't been able to place new text on an existing form. He just hadn't found that process in Adobe's convoluted documentation.Aha! You didn't RTFM!
Have you experience with applications that were designed to build forms from start to finish? It sounds like you have learned how to manipulate Acrobat to get what you need and perhaps that you may not have seen what a true form creation program can do for ease of use. The need for automated sequential numbering and such is built in so that you don't have to be a genius for javascript. I may be off base but a long time ago I was seriously impressed with a true form design program and Acrobat is just not designed for that IMHO.
Doubtless dedicated forms creation software is superior to Acro6. Many of its forms creation processes are a big PITA, like placing new text: Make the text; invoke the fonts panel by an arcane and obscure ritual (and you can't change the default font--at least I haven't found out how yet); then switch tools to move it around. Not exactly streamlined. Making tables is a good bit easier in Acro6, though, so they're coming along. Then the so-and-so's had to go and kill the tab-ordering tool. Adobe's just far enough away from a forms authoring tool to make your eyes water. But it can be done, as long as the forms aren't so complex that the time investment is prohibitive.
We'd all like to have a forms creation tool which, when run through a scanner, the software would OCR all the text, make all the blanks live fields, figure out what needed to be added up, and place the JavaScripts in the right places automatically. But not even OmniForm is that good on a PC. There isn't a comparable tool on the Mac to my knowledge.
Jim Plante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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