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

Re: [users] Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-09 Thread Brian Barker
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 impressions are that this seems to do what I want. To give credit where it's due, I lear

Re: [users] Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-09 Thread Keith Bates
On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:24:51 -0500 Barbara Duprey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Harold Fuchs wrote: > > On 09/10/2008 07:16, Brian Barker wrote: > >> At 12:46 09/10/2008 +1100, Keith Bates wrote: > >>> When I perform marriages I need to fill in about three or four > >>> forms [...] At the moment

Re: [users] Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-09 Thread Barbara Duprey
Harold Fuchs wrote: On 09/10/2008 07:16, Brian Barker wrote: At 12:46 09/10/2008 +1100, Keith Bates wrote: When I perform marriages I need to fill in about three or four forms [...] At the moment, most of them are filled in by hand because it's easier than making the effort to organise templ

Re: [users] Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-09 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 09/10/2008 07:16, Brian Barker wrote: At 12:46 09/10/2008 +1100, Keith Bates wrote: When I perform marriages I need to fill in about three or four forms [...] At the moment, most of them are filled in by hand because it's easier than making the effort to organise templates etc. to print th

Re: [users] Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-09 Thread Brian Barker
At 16:42 09/10/2008 +1100, Keith Bates wrote: Apart from the scanning bit which isn't practical (one of the forms is bigger than A4 and my scanner is maximum A4) ... Easy! Turn the form sideways and scan each end separately. Trim the two graphics along three sides. Insert both graphics at a

Re: [users] Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-08 Thread Brian Barker
At 12:46 09/10/2008 +1100, Keith Bates wrote: When I perform marriages I need to fill in about three or four forms [...] At the moment, most of them are filled in by hand because it's easier than making the effort to organise templates etc. to print the information into the right spot on the

[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

Re: [users] Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-08 Thread Anthony Chilco
Hi Keith, I'd scan the documents, then drop them, one to a page in a writer file. Check the size to make sure that it's correct. Set up a spreadsheet with the information for the forms, then place a field that's linked to the spreadsheet for each bit of information that you want to import. When

[users] Templates for Form Filling

2008-10-08 Thread Keith Bates
This is probably really easy to do, but I'm not sure where to look for instructions. When I perform marriages I need to fill in about three or four forms plus statutory declarations with the names of the bride and groom, addresses, occupation, mother's maiden name etc. The forms are not all the sa