On Feb 17, 2006, at 8:41 AM, Ed Howland wrote: > The technique of using OOo is pretty easy though, anyone can do it. > You > can even create PDF forms that you can give out to people to fill in, > then they can submit right off the form to a web site (thats where you > have to parse the FDF, not what I had to do to pre-fill the forms.)
Are you saying that OOo 2.0 can generate PDF forms? That's awesome. Do you have a sample OOo 2.0 doc or know of one that I can download to try out? > Luckily, I started with MS Word documents. Import that into OOo. > Save a > copy as .odt (OpenDocument Text*). > Then View->Toolbars->Form Controls. This brings up the Form Controls > toolbar. Select Design Mode, then drag, say, a text box onto the form. > Hold the mouse button down and drag it open to the size you want it > to be. > Rt-Click and change its properties and change its name from > Textbox1 to > whatever. > Repeat as needed. > Export to PDF and you are done! Sweet. I'll have to play with that. I've been looking for something like that for quite some time. All kinds of things come to mind. And it wouldn't require direct web access: e-mail/download form, fill in, e-mail/upload. Thanks, Ed. Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
