RE: [PDF-Basics] RFPs Arriving as PDFs

[Edward Becker]

Rich,     First, I'm not the [EMAIL PROTECTED] that started thread, that was just a weird coincidence. Second, I'm think that I'm familiar with what the poster is talking about, and that is that a he is receiving Word forms. I made that assumption in my response since he's now receiving PDF's that need to be filled out and returned.     The originator of the Word document and now PDF's probably has created the file as a PDF form but the poster doesn't have full Acrobat and can't know this. When & if the poster responds, we'll know  whether or not I was barking up the wrong tree.   Thanks for the info, I didn't know that Approval was discontinued and now don't know if there is a low cost enterprise way for people to fill out and send forms. Does Elements allow you to do that?   As far as I know, you cannot save a form filled in with any version of Reader, that was why they made the Approval product for people who just wanted that functionality.   Ed >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/20/2004 12:13:14 PM >>> Okay, Edward. You  have me totally confused.   The initial thread, which you started, was regarding how to best work with RFPs submitted as PDF files. I was suggesting that in absence of a better solution one could simply cut and paste the questions from a PDF into a new Word doc, then type in the responses to the questions.   I have no idea how this evolved into a discussion about forms. However, be that as it may, I believe Acrobat Approval has been discontinued. There is a product called Acrobat Elements, intended for enterprise customers with 1,000 plus licenses.   More importantly, however, in Acrobat 6 one simply needs the Reader to be able to complete, save and submit an Acrobat form.   Rich From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Becker Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 8:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PDF-Basics] RFPs Arriving as PDFs My guess is that the forms that you were filling in with Word were created using a fillable form field. You should check with the person sending you the file to find out if the file is an Acrobat Form. If that's the case the simplest way of filling it out is to purchase Acrobat 6. If this is something that more than one person needs to fill out then consider Acrobat Approval. Approval allows a user to Open, Fill in, and Save an Acrobat Form. I've used this product for forms that I've created on Mac and PC and it seems to work fine. Also the cost is not too bad about $40 vs. $280+ for Acrobat Basic.     --------------------------------------------- Edward Becker Design Consultant Technology Department MTA Bridges & Tunnels 2 Broadway, 24th Floor New York, NY 10004 646-252-7814 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------- >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2/20/2004 10:24:15 AM >>> PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __________________________________________________________________ How about simply copying and pasting the text to a new Word doc? It may not be a perfect solution, but it certainly would be easier than retyping or reformatting the PDF text. Rich -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Becker Edward Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 7:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PDF-Basics] RFPs Arriving as PDFs PDF-Basics is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __________________________________________________________________ I hope (and think) that I'm sendin! ! g this email as plain text because I know in the past I sent one as HTML and got notice. I'm still a newbie with Outlook so bear with me. QUESTION: Does anyone else have this problem?  I work in a company that gets RFPs ((Requests for Proposals) from companies soliciting business. Our job is to create a proposal to enter into bidding. These RFPs often have upwards of 100+ questions that need our response. It used to be 10 out of 10 RFPs came to us as Word docs which is fine. We simply plug in our answers. Now, nearly 4 our of 10 RFPs come to us as PDFs.  Problem--we can't just plug in our answers as we could do when it came as a Word doc.  Currently we covert it to a Word doc, but as you probably know you end with a huge blob of unformatted text that now requires hours of re-formatting. Usually we can ask the company to send it back as a Word doc.  However, some companies say they only have it as! a! PDF which seems odd since you figure the original document must ha ve been created in Word. Is this a case where companies aren't aware that a PDF isn't as practical as sending it in workable format? And, question #2, is there any way to make a PDF into a Word doc and preserve the original look/format. I think I know the answer--the original document may have been done in Quark, PageMaker, etc so there would be no way to reverse back to this original format. Thanks in advance.. 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