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I got a whiff of a bit of software from Adobe that allows me to make interactive PDF documents and so, as I do, I’ve been messing with it a bit. You can see what it does by trying this…
http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/downloads … eeting.pdf
That should give you an interactive form to book a place for lunch etc. at the next UKW meeting. Now this form is still in Beta as it were, I’ve not totally finalised the design or content but there’s enough there to give you an idea of what we’re about and if a couple of kind souls would like to check it that’d be great. I’d especially be keen to know that it works with older versions of Acrobat, I know it works with Acrobat 7.
What it does is simplify the whole process of collecting and collating data, it could also be used a ot more for our own nefarious purposes.
I will have, over the next few weeks, have Craig looking at this to see where we can apply this to give us standardised order forms, returns forms, report forms and stuff like that just to make life a little easier. Of course these will be made freely available to subscribers and, if enough of us uses the format, maybe we’ll get some standardisation rather than the mess that a lot of the admin is now with a lot of companies. It also will, I hope, make us all appear a lot more professional than the cowboys that we really are! 😆 (KIDDING!!)
Of course all these forms can be customised with your own company logos etc., or that of the client, giving it a very clean, polished and professional look. But the best bit is that anyone can use them and really can’t go wrong as we can make certain fields mandatory with masks etc., very neat.
K.
Re: Dynamic Forms
Please stress this is a prototype and don’t assume the session times to be written in stone. Also there is no breakfast session on the Friday morning…..or lunch session organised for the Saturday…
KevinYeah, hence the BETA bit. 😉
That bit was cadged from a template and not altered, bar the back end code for some of the check boxes.
K.
Re: Dynamic Forms
Ken, despite 2 pop up messages saying it needs a updated version of acrobat (I have 5) for it to work, it does seem to work but I have not tried to submit it, should I try a fictional version?
Re: Dynamic Forms
I’ve got 6 and update messages – submit does not respond. Don’t want 7 yet – TDS will fall over……..
Chris.
Re: Dynamic Forms
Penguin45 wrote:I’ve got 6 and update messages – submit does not respond. Don’t want 7 yet – TDS will fall over……..
Chris.
I had Acrobat 7 installed before I got the TDS DVD. I installed Acrobat 5 from the DVD then the full TDS info. I have no problems whatsoever using the DVD, most pages open in Acrobat 5 but some even open in Acrobat 7 perfectly.
Versions 5 & 7 do seem to work independantly.
PS. Acrobat 7 did an auto update yesterday.
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