[Psml] Paperless Reporting and Record Keeping

[Dan Bartell]

Actually if you have full Acrobat you can turn a PDF document into a 
form with fields and actions upon submission.  Tom Brinka has done 
that with the Educational Department order forms which go to cgi 
scripts running on the server and it works quite well.  You can 
partially fill out the forms and save them as templates on your own 
machine.  However it takes full Acrobat which is a bit pricey.
Cheers,
Dan
At 09:28 3/8/2008, Barclay M. Thomas wrote:
>Dan, R.D., and all,
>Not that I am an expert but, while Rich Text Format (RTF) is easily 
>read and written by most word processing programs, any document 
>formatting is often lost or skewed in the transition. Portable 
>Document Format (PDF) is designed by default to retain all 
>formatting of the original document no matter what platform or 
>program it is viewed in.
>Yes, it may take another step or two to save a file in PDF, but it 
>makes for a better archive since all the data will remain in the 
>right place. You can always save the PDF as a text (.txt) file if 
>you want to alter it.
>
>I have not paid too much attention to what is out there in terms of 
>PDF creation/conversion programs, but there are a lot and many are 
>not too expensive or are free. Of course you get what you pay for. I 
>do know there are some open-source programs that are quite capable 
>though. Take a look at 
><<http://sourceforge.net>http://sourceforge.net>, but don't get 
>overwhelmed by all the projects (grin).
>
>That being said, it would be nice if the forms on the National 
>website had all the data input spaces (i.e.: quantity, price, etc.) 
>created as text fields so a blank original can be downloaded and 
>save as a template, then filled out as needed. Of course I am only 
>looking for someone else to do the work so I don't have to. But once 
>it's done, it's done.
>
>Enjoy the weekend,
>--
>P/C Barclay M. Thomas, AP
>Saybrook Power Squadron, D-1
>
>
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P/C Dan Bartell, SN
SEO - Shallotte River Sail & Power Squadron - D27 (NC)
Member USPS National Information Technology Committee   
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