[thelist] Adobe PDF Fill-in Forms

[Rachell Coe]

I want to thank all of you for your swift responses.  Thanks to Shirley's 
link to Planet PDF, I now have the answer to my question -- and if others 
of you are interested, go to 
http://www.planetpdf.com/binthing~webpageid,895.htm.

Thanks again for all the help!

At 02:19 PM 12/4/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Rachel,
>
>My hunch is that you probably need the pumped up version of Adobe Acrobat 
>for this. You might double-check Adobe's site or Planet PDF at 
>http://www.planetpdf.com.
>
>This is a different need than converting a document to PDF, and I'm pretty 
>sure Illustrator will only convert a document to PDF.
>
>Also, right now Netscape 6 doesn't support this fillable form feature, 
>unfortunately. It's such a terrific feature with PDF forms that not enough 
>people are aware of at the moment. I'm hoping that gets changed with an 
>update. PDF has so many great capabilities.
>
>Warmly,
>Shirley
>--
>Shirley E. Kaiser, M.A.
>SKDesigns mailto:skaiser at skdesigns.com
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>
>Rachell Coe wrote:
>
>>The user opens the PDF file in Adobe Acrobat, and then they are able to 
>>fill out the form.  The fill-in 'fields' are not visible as they are on 
>>standard html forms.  You just click on the various answer lines and you 
>>are able to type info in.  An example of this is at the IRS's fill-in 
>>forms page at http://www.irs.gov/forms_pubs/fillin.html.  You can click 
>>on any of the forms on the bottom and you will see what I mean.
>>Right now, I create PDF files using Adobe Illustrator -- can I use that 
>>to make the answer lines 'fillable'?  Or do I need the pumped up paid 
>>version of Adobe Acrobat?
>
>
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Rachell Coe
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