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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.<br>
Cheers,<br>
Dan<br>
At 09:28 3/8/2008, Barclay M. Thomas wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Dan, R.D., and all,<br>
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.<br>
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.<br><br>
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
<<a href="http://sourceforge.net">http://sourceforge.net</a>>, but
don't get overwhelmed by all the projects (grin).<br><br>
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.<br><br>
Enjoy the weekend,<br>
-- <br>
P/C Barclay M. Thomas, AP<br>
Saybrook Power Squadron, D-1<br><br>
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