Daniel Carrera wrote:
Andrews wrote:Following on the PDF concept - if Openoffice had a "final" command that automatically converted a file to PDF, marked it final and date stamped it (or digitally signed it), and then cleared the original this could be a solution. It would then be nice to have a PDF viewer incorporated as in Star Office. Having read a recent article in an accounting magazine and having had a lot of end user experience I firmly believe there is a need to provide document users with the certainty that what they are using is actually final. Its good to see others are aware of the problem and have the means to do something about it.
Thanks for the reply - thought the format could be a problem, I suppose one could export to PDF and then clear the original sheet - I am not sure though how easy the PDF format could be edited.
PDF is not an editable format.
Give me a while to think about this problem you posed. It's an interesting problem, and I like challenges :-) But don't get your hopes up. At first glance, it looks infeasible.
Cheers,
Another issue that I mentioned in my first email is the possibility of turning a spreadsheet into an input form that users would only be able to enter specified fields that the "form" would prompt them to fill in and the entry validated for correct format. This can be partially done at the moment with passwords but of course there is no prompting or validation. What I have in mind would be very simple in concept. I have as yet not learnt much about Macros - could they possible solve my problem?
By the way the forms commands and icons seem to be missing on 2.0
Jeremy
