Hey, Michael - - Yes, you can do it with Acrobat Standard or Professional. I teach this. All of your friend's clients would need a newer version of Acrobat reader, or they could fill out the form and not *save* the changes.
You design a document and add a form. The form controls are sort of crude, but they work OK (some are kinda weird). He would need to set up the rights to the PDF to allow the form to be edited and saved. And, as I said, people can save the filled-in form *only* if they have a 7+ version of Acrobat reader. The folks can can either send it back, or one can add a "submit" button to the form which can email back either the whole document or the "database" layer of the PDF. You can also do a bit of JavaScript if you are feeling fancy. If he has Acrobat Professional, there is a "lifecycle designer" (?? can't remember the exact term) which automates this somewhat and puts all of the responses into a common "database" layer for your friend. It is slick if you either don't know how to do it with a web form or you don't know better. You can export the data layer to Excel or a tab-delimited, I think. Also, if his clients are older, it has a certain "paper" feel which the clients may find comforting. It also feels to some more secure than a web site. ken On Aug 5, 2009, at 2:43 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: > Friend calls me who is a financial securities planner/broker of sorts. > He apparently wants to send his clients a form to fill out and have > them > email it back to him. I guess he's seen an Adobe form or something > like > that. He wants to know if he needs to buy some Adobe software to get > this ability. My first thought was a web page of some sort, but I > didn't have much time to speak with him at the time and thought I'd > throw this out here to see if anyone has a quick thought on it. > > tia! > --Mike > > -- > Mike Babcock, MCP > MB Software Solutions, LLC > President, Chief Software Architect > http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com > http://fabmate.com > http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/e6eb956b-759d-4d86-98a5-59084a881...@information-architecture.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
