[Psml] Paperless Reporting and Record Keeping

[Dave Donkers]

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Dave Donkers   DuPage

Dan Bartell wrote:
> 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>, 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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