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From: "Austin, Darrel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [PDF] Options for online filling out of forms. Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 09:47:46 -0500
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We provide a lot of legal forms to both the public and to legal representatives in our court system.
Up until now, we've simply provided printable PDF forms. We'd like to move towards having forms filled out online (online = on the computer...not necessarily via a web site).
Over the past year, I've looked at a few options including an PDF-forms
editor and some web-based solutions such as MandoForms. I'm open to anything
at this point, but need to dig a bit deeper to see what's out there. For
starters, what would people recommend for a PDF based system. Some
background info/criteria/things to consider:
- Forms may be filled out by legal professionals or your average citizen.
- The form technology should be platform independant (Primarily Windows and
Mac, but Linux would be nice too).
- We're open to condidering that end-users purchase software (this would be
more likely to happen in the legal professional world).
- If there is a server based component, it'd be nice to have the server 'remember' user data (ie, NAME, ADDRESS, forms-in-progress, etc.)
- The biggest bottleneck at this point appears to be the process of actually making the forms (adding the fields in Acrobat). Alternative PDF forms authoring tools would be good to see.
- We may choose a web-only based solution as well (allowing for a more wizard-like interface) though any way to tie that in with a PDF technology would be good.
The one tentative solution I've found for basic provisioning of online PDF forms was PDForMail (which has been upgraded to Formium, apparently). It allowed a PDF form to be filled out within the browser. The form + Data was then sent back to the server and merged and sent back to the end-user as a completed form.
Advantages: inexpensive (well, it was...not sure about Formium), nothing required on the end-users' computers.
Disadvantages: form had to be completed in one sitting. Not Mac friendly (since in-browser forms aren't natively supported yet, though there appear to be options out there)
So, any other suggested solutions to look at would be appreciated!
-Darrel
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