PDF Forms Query

["Burch, Denise (CAR)" <Denise -dot- Burch -at- VW -dot- COM>]

Max,

What a cool solution. Does the Acrobat package come with detailed
instructions on how to put together such an elaborate form? I may be
interested in using this type of form on our intranet, too. Is the CGI
scripting complex for extracting the data into a database and for
auto-filing the completed forms?

Thanks,
Denise Burch
denise -dot- burch -at- vw -dot- com

> ----------
> From:         Max Wyss[SMTP:prodok -at- PRODOK -dot- CH]
> Sent:         Saturday, January 09, 1999 4:26 AM
> Subject:      Re: Retrieving Data from an online form
>
> Barbara,
>
> It would be worthwile looking at a PDF (Adobe Acrobat) based solution.
>
> You would convert your MessyWord forms into the PDF format, check and
> add
> the form fields (where you could add some functionality and
> "intelligence",
> such as automatically entering the location of the machine,
> plausibility
> tests, formatting, or even elaborate calculations.
>
> This filled out form can be printed out. For storing to reuse the
> data, you
> have two possibilities.
>
> With the free and freely distributable Acrobat Reader, you can submit
> the
> forms data to a CGI script on a webserver, which will then do the
> further
> processing.
>
> With the not free and freely distributable Acrobat Exchange, you can -
> of
> course - submit the forms data to a CGI script on a webserver. In
> addition
> to that, you can save the forms data in a specific file format (FDF
> format). on disk, and you can also save the filled out form as
> complete
> document in the PDF format. Then you can do any further processing
> with
> these documents.
>
> Exchange is as said not free. It comes normally as part of the Acrobat
> package. However, it is also available in bulk, for a quite reasonable
> price, depending on the number of licences you would buy. Contact
> Adobe
> about this possibility.
>
> However, as you are on an intranet, I can assume that your users are
> connected to a web server.
> In such a case, using the free Reader would be sufficient.
>
> For an example of a rather elaborate Acrobat form, you might look at
> the URL
>
>     http://www.prodok.ch/prodok/riemen.html
>
> This is a header page from where you can either look on-line or
> download
> forms for the specification and calculation of belt drives. If you
> don't
> have any Acrobat Reader already, you would first have to download
> Acrobat
> Reader 3.02 for you platform. If you already have Reader 3.01, you
> might
> need the Forms 3.5 plug-in. For both cases, links are on that page.
>
> Hope, this can help.
>
> Max Wyss
> PRODOK Engineering
> Technical documentation and translations, Electronic Publishing
> CH-8906 Bonstetten, Switzerland
>
> Fax:  +41 1 700 20 37
> e-mail:  mailto:prodok -at- prodok -dot- ch
> WWW:  http://www.prodok.ch/prodok
>
>
> Bridging the Knowledge Gap
>
>
> ______________________
>
>
>
> >We have created various online forms using MS Word97.  Users can
> >download these forms from our intranet (thus, opening the file in MS
> >Word) and fill in the data for a form's fields.  Does anyone know if
> >there is a way to retrieve the data to use in a new version of the
> form
> >(to eliminate the need to retype the data or cut and paste it)?  It
> also
> >would be helpful if this data were in a separate file that could be
> read
> >for other purposes.  All info concerning these needs will be greatly
> >appreciated.
> >Thanks,
> >Barbara Curto
>
>


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