Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents
Hi, Thanks for replying. In the PDF, I was looking at the Allowed vs. Not Allowed in the Document Restrictions Summary (File -- Document Properties -- Security). It says Filling of Form Fields: Allowed. --- On Wed, 5/20/09, Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com wrote: From: Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 9:17 AM On Wed, 20 May 2009 05:55:17 -0700 (PDT), wba wba...@yahoo.com wrote: I have a question about PDF Documents. Reports -- Books/Other -- Blank Charts -- Research Log. Legacy has the feature to create a blank Research Log in PDF. My problem: Rather than print it and fill in the information by hand, I want to do it on the computer. However, it will not allow me to fill in the fields even though the Security Settings indicates that filling in form fields is allowed. Apparently the PDF that Legacy generates does not have any form fields on it (even though it resembles a form). -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents
Thanks. I have the Reader. I was going on the information in the Document Security that said Filling in Form Fields: Allowed. I was under the impression that the Standard and higher versions would allow me to Save it after I filled in the form. All I wanted to do was to fill it out on the screen and print it. -- --- On Wed, 5/20/09, Rebecca Williams rebecca.w...@gmail.com wrote: From: Rebecca Williams rebecca.w...@gmail.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 10:01 AM I believe you have to have Acrobat Standard to fill in the form on your computer screen and save it. There also might be a .pdf form fill program that is available to fill in .pdf forms. If you have Acrobat you need to have the typewriter tool bar on and selected to fill in the different areas. REbecca -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Dennis M. Kowallek Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 9:17 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents On Wed, 20 May 2009 05:55:17 -0700 (PDT), wba wba...@yahoo.com wrote: I have a question about PDF Documents. Reports -- Books/Other -- Blank Charts -- Research Log. Legacy has the feature to create a blank Research Log in PDF. My problem: Rather than print it and fill in the information by hand, I want to do it on the computer. However, it will not allow me to fill in the fields even though the Security Settings indicates that filling in form fields is allowed. Apparently the PDF that Legacy generates does not have any form fields on it (even though it resembles a form). -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.325 / Virus Database: 270.12.35/2123 - Release Date: 05/19/09 17:59:00 Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents
Thanks. I found several sites; but still have the same problem. --- On Wed, 5/20/09, Michael L. Thomas lega...@bennascents.com wrote: From: Michael L. Thomas lega...@bennascents.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 10:10 AM wba wrote: Hello! I have a question about PDF Documents. Reports -- Books/Other -- Blank Charts -- Research Log. Legacy has the feature to create a blank Research Log in PDF. My problem: Rather than print it and fill in the information by hand, I want to do it on the computer. However, it will not allow me to fill in the fields even though the Security Settings indicates that filling in form fields is allowed. Thanks for your help. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp There are also many genealogical sites that have forms that you can fill in automatically in various formats. Just google genealogy forms. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents
Okay - maybe I am misunderstanding what a Form field is. I am thinking that I can create the Research Log in PDF format and then fill in the information while I have it on the screen; and then print it. --- On Wed, 5/20/09, Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com wrote: From: Dennis M. Kowallek kowal...@iglou.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 10:24 AM On Wed, 20 May 2009 10:01:50 -0400, Rebecca Williams rebecca.w...@gmail.com wrote: I believe you have to have Acrobat Standard to fill in the form on your computer screen and save it. There also might be a .pdf form fill program that is available to fill in .pdf forms. That too. But I just opened the Research Log in PDFill and it does not have any form fields in it. So even if the OP had Acrobat (or similar program) she would have to add her own form fields first before being able to use it. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents
wba wrote: Okay - maybe I am misunderstanding what a Form field is. I am thinking that I can create the Research Log in PDF format and then fill in the information while I have it on the screen; and then print it. Again, Legacy does NOT create form fields on their pdf documents. IF they did you would be able to fill them in because that attribute is set to allow. Since Legacy does not create the form FIELDS there are no form fields to fill in. To create form fields you can fill in, you need either the full version of adobe () or a third party add on. Legacy does not yet provide that ability. If enough people want it, it might happen but the mail list is not the place to request it. Send your requests directly to Legacy and if enough paying customers request it, we may get lucky and get it. -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox with Legacy Family Tree http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents
Hi wba, In my post of May 20 I mentioned 2 conditions of the PDF: the presence of form fields and the enabling of user rights. I neglected a third condition. When the form is rendered into a PDF, it may be rendered either as an interactive or printform PDF. The latter is as it suggests, only for printing. It appears that Legacy, by design or by accident, is rendering the PDF as a printform and thus no interaction with the form is possible. An interactive PDF should show a purple bar across the top of the document (using Reader 8.1.5 anyway), which summarizes the usage rights. It will also have a blue circle icon in the column along the left side of the document, which can be used to list all the usage rights. For an example of this, go to http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf?portlet=3. (In this case, Reader will be embedded in your browser, but that makes no difference.) It appears that Legacy is using software called ComponentOne PDF Generator 8.0 and is generating an old version of the PDF standard (1.2 instead of 1.6). It may be that Legacy developers simply need to tweak their use of this package to cause it to create the interactive version of this form. Or, it may be that Legacy needs to upgrade to a newer version of ComponentOne products. Please file a bug report with Legacy. I suggest that it would technically be an enhancement request rather than a true defect. It is more convenient to fill out the form on-line, allowing later edits, than to print it and fill it out by hand. This enhancement should apply to blank forms, but not to most other Legacy reports, I would think. Hope this helps. Ward - Original Message - From: wba wba...@yahoo.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 8:57 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents Thanks. I have the Reader. I was going on the information in the Document Security that said Filling in Form Fields: Allowed. I was under the impression that the Standard and higher versions would allow me to Save it after I filled in the form. All I wanted to do was to fill it out on the screen and print it. -- --- On Wed, 5/20/09, Rebecca Williams rebecca.w...@gmail.com wrote: From: Rebecca Williams rebecca.w...@gmail.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 10:01 AM I believe you have to have Acrobat Standard to fill in the form on your computer screen and save it. There also might be a .pdf form fill program that is available to fill in .pdf forms. If you have Acrobat you need to have the typewriter tool bar on and selected to fill in the different areas. REbecca -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Dennis M. Kowallek Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 9:17 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents On Wed, 20 May 2009 05:55:17 -0700 (PDT), wba wba...@yahoo.com wrote: I have a question about PDF Documents. Reports -- Books/Other -- Blank Charts -- Research Log. Legacy has the feature to create a blank Research Log in PDF. My problem: Rather than print it and fill in the information by hand, I want to do it on the computer. However, it will not allow me to fill in the fields even though the Security Settings indicates that filling in form fields is allowed. Apparently the PDF that Legacy generates does not have any form fields on it (even though it resembles a form). Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents
Thank you Ward! --- On Wed, 5/27/09, Ward Walker wnkwal...@rogers.com wrote: From: Ward Walker wnkwal...@rogers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Date: Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 11:03 AM Hi wba, In my post of May 20 I mentioned 2 conditions of the PDF: the presence of form fields and the enabling of user rights. I neglected a third condition. When the form is rendered into a PDF, it may be rendered either as an interactive or printform PDF. The latter is as it suggests, only for printing. It appears that Legacy, by design or by accident, is rendering the PDF as a printform and thus no interaction with the form is possible. An interactive PDF should show a purple bar across the top of the document (using Reader 8.1.5 anyway), which summarizes the usage rights. It will also have a blue circle icon in the column along the left side of the document, which can be used to list all the usage rights. For an example of this, go to http://www.irs.ustreas.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf?portlet=3. (In this case, Reader will be embedded in your browser, but that makes no difference.) It appears that Legacy is using software called ComponentOne PDF Generator 8.0 and is generating an old version of the PDF standard (1.2 instead of 1.6). It may be that Legacy developers simply need to tweak their use of this package to cause it to create the interactive version of this form. Or, it may be that Legacy needs to upgrade to a newer version of ComponentOne products. Please file a bug report with Legacy. I suggest that it would technically be an enhancement request rather than a true defect. It is more convenient to fill out the form on-line, allowing later edits, than to print it and fill it out by hand. This enhancement should apply to blank forms, but not to most other Legacy reports, I would think. Hope this helps. Ward - Original Message - From: wba wba...@yahoo.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 8:57 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents Thanks. I have the Reader. I was going on the information in the Document Security that said Filling in Form Fields: Allowed. I was under the impression that the Standard and higher versions would allow me to Save it after I filled in the form. All I wanted to do was to fill it out on the screen and print it. -- --- On Wed, 5/20/09, Rebecca Williams rebecca.w...@gmail.com wrote: From: Rebecca Williams rebecca.w...@gmail.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2009, 10:01 AM I believe you have to have Acrobat Standard to fill in the form on your computer screen and save it. There also might be a .pdf form fill program that is available to fill in .pdf forms. If you have Acrobat you need to have the typewriter tool bar on and selected to fill in the different areas. REbecca -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Dennis M. Kowallek Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 9:17 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents On Wed, 20 May 2009 05:55:17 -0700 (PDT), wba wba...@yahoo.com wrote: I have a question about PDF Documents. Reports -- Books/Other -- Blank Charts -- Research Log. Legacy has the feature to create a blank Research Log in PDF. My problem: Rather than print it and fill in the information by hand, I want to do it on the computer. However, it will not allow me to fill in the fields even though the Security Settings indicates that filling in form fields is allowed. Apparently the PDF that Legacy generates does not have any form fields on it (even though it resembles a form). Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents
On Wed, 20 May 2009 05:55:17 -0700 (PDT), wba wba...@yahoo.com wrote: I have a question about PDF Documents. Reports -- Books/Other -- Blank Charts -- Research Log. Legacy has the feature to create a blank Research Log in PDF. My problem: Rather than print it and fill in the information by hand, I want to do it on the computer. However, it will not allow me to fill in the fields even though the Security Settings indicates that filling in form fields is allowed. Apparently the PDF that Legacy generates does not have any form fields on it (even though it resembles a form). -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents
I believe you have to have Acrobat Standard to fill in the form on your computer screen and save it. There also might be a .pdf form fill program that is available to fill in .pdf forms. If you have Acrobat you need to have the typewriter tool bar on and selected to fill in the different areas. REbecca -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Dennis M. Kowallek Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 9:17 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents On Wed, 20 May 2009 05:55:17 -0700 (PDT), wba wba...@yahoo.com wrote: I have a question about PDF Documents. Reports -- Books/Other -- Blank Charts -- Research Log. Legacy has the feature to create a blank Research Log in PDF. My problem: Rather than print it and fill in the information by hand, I want to do it on the computer. However, it will not allow me to fill in the fields even though the Security Settings indicates that filling in form fields is allowed. Apparently the PDF that Legacy generates does not have any form fields on it (even though it resembles a form). -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.325 / Virus Database: 270.12.35/2123 - Release Date: 05/19/09 17:59:00 Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents
wba wrote: Hello! I have a question about PDF Documents. Reports -- Books/Other -- Blank Charts -- Research Log. Legacy has the feature to create a blank Research Log in PDF. My problem: Rather than print it and fill in the information by hand, I want to do it on the computer. However, it will not allow me to fill in the fields even though the Security Settings indicates that filling in form fields is allowed. Thanks for your help. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp There are also many genealogical sites that have forms that you can fill in automatically in various formats. Just google genealogy forms. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents
Rebecca Williams wrote: I believe you have to have Acrobat Standard to fill in the form on your computer screen and save it. There also might be a .pdf form fill program that is available to fill in .pdf forms. -SNIPPED- Apparently the PDF that Legacy generates does not have any form fields on it (even though it resembles a form). Any version of Adobe Acrobat, Full or Reader will fill in a PDF form that has FORM FIELDS inserted. Legacy does not generate FORM FIELDS in their pdf documents. If you really need this function you can download Open Office, re-create the form from scratch (you only have to do this once) and export it as a fillable form with FORM FIELDS. There are numerous tutorials and help sites available to help with this project. (Hint; GOOGLE) This is, at this point, totally off topic and should be dropped. -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox with Legacy Family Tree http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents
On Wed, 20 May 2009 10:01:50 -0400, Rebecca Williams rebecca.w...@gmail.com wrote: I believe you have to have Acrobat Standard to fill in the form on your computer screen and save it. There also might be a .pdf form fill program that is available to fill in .pdf forms. That too. But I just opened the Research Log in PDFill and it does not have any form fields in it. So even if the OP had Acrobat (or similar program) she would have to add her own form fields first before being able to use it. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents
wba, I understand PDF-XChange (Freeware) will let you annotate pdf files. http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/pdf-xchange-viewer/pdfxchangeviewer.html (No affiliation) Tim Rosenlof wba wrote: Hello! I have a question about PDF Documents. Reports -- Books/Other -- Blank Charts -- Research Log. Legacy has the feature to create a blank Research Log in PDF. My problem: Rather than print it and fill in the information by hand, I want to do it on the computer. However, it will not allow me to fill in the fields even though the Security Settings indicates that filling in form fields is allowed. Thanks for your help. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents
As Gene pointed out, the free Adobe Reader has the capability to allow users to fill in form fields, as long as (a) the form designer created such fields in the form; and (b) the form designer enabled the appropriate user rights when rendering the form into a PDF. (An example of this is the U.S. IRS tax forms.) Likewise, the free Adobe Reader has support for applying various comments and annotations to a form, again, as long as the form had been given the appropriate user rights when first created. (However, I don't personally see a need for annotations, per se, in this case.) So, there is no need to seek other free PDF products or the full Adobe Acrobat product. Rather, and to bring this back to being on-topic for the LUG, I believe that the OP should log a bug report with Legacy to re-design this particular form to correct these design deficiencies. There is no logical reason for denying rights for a form such as this one, which is meant to be filled out after rendering. Ward - Original Message - From: Tim Rosenlof spa...@xmission.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 12:38 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents wba, I understand PDF-XChange (Freeware) will let you annotate pdf files. http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/pdf-xchange-viewer/pdfxchangeviewer.html (No affiliation) Tim Rosenlof wba wrote: Hello! I have a question about PDF Documents. Reports -- Books/Other -- Blank Charts -- Research Log. Legacy has the feature to create a blank Research Log in PDF. My problem: Rather than print it and fill in the information by hand, I want to do it on the computer. However, it will not allow me to fill in the fields even though the Security Settings indicates that filling in form fields is allowed. Thanks for your help. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents
Did anyone generate the form other than the original sender and try to fill in the form? I have the full acrobat product and have no trouble filling in the form. Rebecca -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Dennis M. Kowallek Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2009 9:17 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents On Wed, 20 May 2009 05:55:17 -0700 (PDT), wba wba...@yahoo.com wrote: I have a question about PDF Documents. Reports -- Books/Other -- Blank Charts -- Research Log. Legacy has the feature to create a blank Research Log in PDF. My problem: Rather than print it and fill in the information by hand, I want to do it on the computer. However, it will not allow me to fill in the fields even though the Security Settings indicates that filling in form fields is allowed. Apparently the PDF that Legacy generates does not have any form fields on it (even though it resembles a form). -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.325 / Virus Database: 270.12.35/2123 - Release Date: 05/19/09 17:59:00 Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents
On Wed, 20 May 2009 19:52:11 -0400, Rebecca Williams rebecca.w...@gmail.com wrote: Did anyone generate the form other than the original sender and try to fill in the form? I did (in V6) and when viewing in Acrobat Reader I do not see any form fields to fill in. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents
I use PDF Xchange viewer, free version. It fills in all of the Legacy forms with no problems. Just have to save them as a PDF file first, then open with the viewer. From: kowal...@iglou.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDF Documents Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 20:04:01 -0400 On Wed, 20 May 2009 19:52:11 -0400, Rebecca Williams rebecca.w...@gmail.com wrote: Did anyone generate the form other than the original sender and try to fill in the form? I did (in V6) and when viewing in Acrobat Reader I do not see any form fields to fill in. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp _ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_BR_life_in_synch_052009 Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
