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Re: Interactive PDFs from Word -- best solution to a painful process?

Subject: Re: Interactive PDFs from Word -- best solution to a painful process?
From: Mike Starr <mike -at- writestarr -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 13:26:14 -0600

One would think it would work that way but it doesn't... the results when I tried that were worse than just stripping all the fields out of the Word document and starting over on the PDF file.

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On 1/8/2015 1:16 PM, Dan Goldstein wrote:

What if you first create a protected Word form, and then convert that document to PDF? Word forms use the same elements as PDF forms: text boxes, check boxes, etc.
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Interactive PDFs from Word -- best solution to a painful process?: From: ryan . minaker
RE: Interactive PDFs from Word -- best solution to a painful process?: From: Dan Goldstein

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