Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional includes a product called Adobe Designer. This
lets you design forms from scratch, or based on a template or from an
imported PDF. There's a studio that lets you specify what data goes where in
the form, and when the user hits the Submit button, the data in the form is
sent as an XML file to a specified email address. There are advanced options
that allow the embedding of javascript inside the PDF. This gets run when
the user is filling in the form. It's a neat utility, and might do what is
being called for here. There are advertised options in Adobe Professional
that it can collate the received emails into a spreadsheet, so the results
of many people filling in the form can be viewed instantly. This sounds neat
for doing surveys, or taking purchase orders, etc.
I'd be interested to know which Open Source product competes with Adobe in
this arena.
Regards,
Matthew Stannard
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From: "Daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <users@openoffice.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 6:10 AM
Subject: [users] Re: Using a pdf file as a template - help
Dale Erwin wrote:
Daniel wrote:
CPHennessy wrote:
On Wednesday 31 August 2005 01:28, + matt cutler wrote:
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hi i'm a new user to OOo but really love it!
here is my problem loads of job applications and other
forms are now as pdf files for download on the web.
My handwriting is shocking! I'd really like to be edit
these pdf. I understand that pdf is a postscript file
and can't be edited as such but all i'd like to do is
use the layout of the pdf as a template or layer to be
able to type things into the spaces on the form. Some
pdf's allow this through acrobat reader but only when
the author puts this in and many of these forms don't
have this. Is there anyway i can open pdf in draw and
then put text over the form and then print it out/send
as email
Not that I know of. However the gimp can open pdfs as drawings I think
http://gimp.org
Please reply to users@openoffice.org only
Another idea which I use (not original to me) is to save the PDF page as
a graphic (a feature of Adobe Reader), use the resulting graphic as an
image filling the page, then adding text boxes for input where they are
needed.
I use this regularly for insurance forms.
Perhaps this will help.
Daniel
Interesting...
On my machine (admittedly I am using Acrobat 5.1), I have a SaveAs
option, but I get the message:
"This document does not allow you to save changes you have made
unless you use the full version of Acrobat."
I'm using Acrobat version 7, and under the Tools menu there is a Snapshot
tool. That produces the graphic.
Daniel
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