Additionally, ...
While with the full Acrobat you can edit a file (change text, add pages, move pages, delete pages), the full Acrobat also allows you to protect a PDF file so that viewers may not copy and/or print and viewers that owns the full Acrobat may also not change the doocument. You can even allow viewing the document with a password.
At 2004-12-23 01:16 PM, you wrote:
Marie:
Here is a little background information that might help. Portable Document
Format (PDF) is a format that Adobe Systems created. The PDF documents have the
following characteristics:
1. Anyone can read and print a PDF file with the "Free" Adobe Reader.
(This allows the developers of a document using for example Visio or any
software, to create a complex graphic drawing with text, graphics, etc & then
save it as a PDF file and everyone can then read/view/print the file and they do
not need to buy the Visio software)
2. Saving a file in a PDF format provides some form of protection so others
cannot modify the document. This is a plus for authors who do not want their
information used or changed without their consent (addresses copyright issues).
(There are always exceptions here. If fact, Adobe sells a full software version
that allows you to edit / change a PDF file. You can also highlight and copy
from a PDF file.)
3. PDFs have become a common standard that almost everyone uses to some degree in sharing documents / graphics / information.
Your comment about why not use *.RTF files works ok for text type documents (assuming everyone has a word processor that reads *.RTF files). Saving files as an RTF does not work in most graphics package like PowerPoint, Visio, etc, but saving as a PDF does work and it retains all the graphics and text in the PDF file.
By the way, there are other companies that sell / market PDF software besides Adobe, but Adobe is the market leader just like Microsoft is.
There are well known and documented standards for PDF files. In our case when applied to Legacy, I "believe" some of those standards were not completely followed is why all the discussion about what version of Adobe 3,4,5,6,7 reads what. I would expect the Legacy folks to correct that issue soon.
Hope this helps.
Leon Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marie Peer Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 9:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] PDF or Other Fillable Forms
After reading the posts about PDF and needing to buy Adobe Acrobat program to
edit them, why would anyone want to use it rather than .rtf? What am I missing?
Why wouldn't it be easier to use .rtf and then move them to whatever word
processing program?
The only reason I've picked up in the discussions so far is that others wouldn't
be able to change the work one has done. Do other reasons exist?
Marie
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dick Rhindress
Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 9:38 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] PDF or Other Fillable Forms
Once you have created the PDF using Legacy you need to have a full copy of
Acrobat ($$$). You can open your PDF in Acrobat, then add the fields/boxes
yourself. It's tedious, but once you know how there are lots of shortcuts and
techniques for doing overlays and duplicating fields. I use that technique for
many things I do, but haven't tried it yet with a Legacy generated PDF.
-Dick
Michael F. Smith wrote:
> I find that I can get people to co-operate to supply small bits of > information if they can do it quickly and they will do it if the > response can be automated. To that end, is it possible to create a > PDF file that can be converted to the fillable form type PDF to be > returned to me? Of course, I am talking about responding by email. > > Or, is it possible to create a HTML document that would contain boxes > to be completed and returned to the sender? > > Thanks > Mike > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > > To unsubscribe please visit: > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > >
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