Acrobat PDF Question

[billyd380]

Hey Everyone,

I have a company Intranet and I am wanting to create pdf forms for them to fill out and save. I have created the forms and text boxes and everything works but since I don't want to buy everyone a copy of Acrobat they aren't able to save. Is there any way around this? I tried to do an action button that didn't seem to work either. Any suggestions would be great.

Thanks,

Bill

[llbbl]

what are the forms that they must fill out?

SUGGESTIONS

1) Do it in word

2) Use Open Office

3) make a web page and store the results in a database

[llbbl]

what is the content i meant

[ECA]

Even use Excel, and create a FULL data base...
They fill out a small form and Excel fills all the data in...

And it can be run from a SERVER, rather then on the CLIENT system.

[billyd380]

Ok I don't think I explained myself well enough. These are company documents that are currently in word and printed out on a letter head and can be multiple pages long. What I want to do is convert these pages into a PDF with out letter head on it and have my employees fill in text boxes. After they are done with entering in their data they will need to save, print and email these forms. I just wasn't sure if there would be another way of doing this to make it look professional without buying Acrobat 6.0.

Bill

[Ioman]

Ok I don't think I explained myself well enough. These are company documents that are currently in word and printed out on a letter head and can be multiple pages long. What I want to do is convert these pages into a PDF with out letter head on it and have my employees fill in text boxes. After they are done with entering in their data they will need to save, print and email these forms. I just wasn't sure if there would be another way of doing this to make it look professional without buying Acrobat 6.0.

Bill

You are probably going to have to buy multiple licenses. There is not other way I can think of doing this. BTW, I used to have a job position just like yours. Depending on how many you need, Adobe should cut you a discount.

[ECA]

Do you have WORD networked to run it??

If so, why not just EMAIL it that way..
OR,
IF its just Text material, USE WORD and SAVE IT AS, TXT or RTF format. It will drop its size 10x, and most of the formating, but will be totally readable and useable.

[ECA]

I do have to ask:
But doesnt the free version of adobe SCAN pages?

[llbbl]

You can do what you are saying in Word. Free version of Acrobat you usually can't save it, but you can print it out and sometimes save it as a *.prn file. This PRN file can then be used to make it into a PDF using free online utilities.

It is possible, but I don't think that way is very professional. It would probably be more professional to do it in word. You could always transfer the liscened version of acrobat to a laptop and designate that as your "Form Filling out Computer" or whatever.

[llbbl]

See this thread with info on how to make your own pdf's.

http://forums.designtechnica.com/showthread.php?t=4899

ok

[flashfire]

1 licence of Adobe to turn forms into interactive PDF's shouldn't be expensive. This is especially true if its for a business purpose. The ROI should be obvious to the person who approves software. BTW: You only need 1 licensce because Adobe doesn't charge for using the documents, just for making them. We do all our corporate forms on our intranet like this and it works GREAT because the Acrobat Reader can use the form, but can't make them. You fill it out and it prints correctly or you resave as a graphic and send back via email.