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Subject:Re: DBs and online forms From:David Castro <thejavaguy -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 5 Oct 2005 05:46:40 -0400
On 10/4/05, Kelley Greenman <writinglists -at- inkworkswell -dot- com> wrote:
>
> He's interested in developing a way to have that information entered
> directly onto an official app in PDF format, and it must look just like
> the official app from BigLoanCo (which is why the PDF), without
> human intervention.
You can set up an Acrobat form on a web site such that when someone
fills in the data and clicks Submit, the data from the form is put
into a database. I created a proof of concept for this very
functionality some years back. You can see it in action here:
Interestingly, when I tried accessing this just now from Firefox, I
got a message indicating that I couldn't do that operation. I'm not
sure what's up with that, but it works from IE. I am pretty sure I've
accessed it from Firefox in the past. But anyway....
If you have any questions about how this is done, please let me know.
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