On Wednesday 25 June 2008 06:18:18 am P. De Buck wrote: > NoOp wrote the following on 25/06/2008 6:16: > > I see that no one has responded. Perhaps this is because it is not clear > > (to me anyway) exactly what you wish to do. Could you please provide > > some additional detail and/or provide some screenshots (put them up on > > a free image server someplace as they won't make it through the list)? > > Well it is rather simple. I'm responsible for the support of our products > and I have to make forms with fields to be filled in by our clients with > requested information. I used to set up a document in Word and created the > form fields in Acrobat. Mostly it are simple text fields with data such > name, address, device information and so on. These forms can then be filled > in and saved with the requested data using the Acrobat Reader. > > Now I'm working some time with OOo and am glad to have a very good > alternative to the MS package. OOo Writer and Calc are also very > interesting as they allow to create a form using their form Controls. This > form can be directly exported as PDF form including these form controls. > This would reduce my work a lot as I don't have to draw and assign any > controls any more with Acrobat (not the Reader) which is also out of date > (at least my version 4.0). > > My only problem now is that these PDF forms, created by using Writer, are > not allowed by the Acrobat Reader to save the data which is filled in. One > can only print it, nothing more. I would prefer one could simply save and > return it, or just the requested data, by email. > > Has any one experience with similar forms and thus problems? > > I hope this is a little bit more clear. > > Regards, > > Pieter > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It appears you are using Windows from the mail header. On Linux I use Scribus and/or OOo to generate PDF forms. I perfer Scribus as it is alittle easier. Both programs are avaliable free for windows. Only issue is saving the filled in PDF form same as Adobe Reader. -- Russ Linux register user 441463 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
