Re: [users] Re: [openoffice] Re: [users] Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-11 Thread Brian Barker
At 15:54 11/10/2008 -0400, Helen Etters wrote: I tried Brian Barker's step by step process for a document that I frequently have to fill in. Where Brian says "Note that the background image of the form will not print" I thought that must refer to some esoteric artifact and I ignored it, beca

Re: [users] Re: [openoffice] Re: [users] Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-11 Thread David Lowe
On Oct 11, 2008, at 12:54 , Helen wrote: Where Brian says "Note that the background image of the form will not print" I thought that must refer to some esoteric artifact and I ignored it, because, after all, what good is the form if it won't print. Brian was referring to filling in field

Re: [users] Re: [openoffice] Re: [users] Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-11 Thread Helen
I tried Brian Barker's step by step process for a document that I frequently have to fill in. Where Brian says "Note that the background image of the form will not print" I thought that must refer to some esoteric artifact and I ignored it, because, after all, what good is the form if it won't pr

[users] Re: [openoffice] Re: [users] Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-09 Thread Keith Bates
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:20:29 +0100 Brian Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 09:13 10/10/2008 +1100, Keith Bates wrote: > >I took up Brian's suggestion of putting sections inside frames and > >linking the sections as the means of copying information from one > >frame to another. My first impr

[users] Re: [openoffice] Re: [users] Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-08 Thread Keith Bates
Hi Anthony Apart from the scanning bit which isn't practical (one of the forms is bigger than A4 and my scanner is maximum A4) I thought the answer would be something like that. I've had a quick look at XForms to see if that's the way to go... I may have to just measure the positions of the fields