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> There are a few products out there that provide the same end-result, > just not with the same simplicity as Adobe's Reader Extended forms. One > is called pdf-Form Server from OVIS (http://shop.pdf- > office.com/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=29&lan > guage=en) and it's priced a fair amount cheaper than outfitting all your > users with Approval or Acrobat. Hmm, I'm guessing that this product uses some clever kludge to make this work. Does anyone know what that is? I'm curious. > It appears to be one of the most common misunderstandings (is that too > kind?) in the industry, however. The main problem here, I think, is that it's not always clear what you get "for free" and what you have to pay for. The technical documents are primarily concerned with what you can and can't do instead of what costs money and what's free. The problem is that in the real world people also are interested in balancing *what* you can do with how much it's going to cost to do it. In order to do that you need to understand the various ways the Adobe functionality is packaged and how much each of those packages cost. This is non-trivial unfortunately. > IMHO - I hope Adobe will start to listen > to their client's needs a little more closely and perhaps even disclose > what it takes to use PDFs as eForm technology. That's easy ... the entire suite of Adobe products. :) Oh, you didn't have a Fortune 100 company IT budget at your disposal? I'm afraid you're going to have to figure out what functionality you need and match it with some subset of the Adobe products or <plug> contact your local Adobe partner and let them do the figuring for you (that's how some of us make our living :) )</plug>. Regards, Rob __________________________ Rob McDougall, Technical Architect Indigo Pacific Limited To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
