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am 17.12.2003 2:08 Uhr schrieb Olivia Ross unter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I have a multi-page form that I distribute in PDF and Excel formats. > The users of the form typically do not have Adobe Acrobat or any other > means to create a PDF file. Adobe Reader will allow filling in the form > but will not allowing saving of the file with the form field data. I > have had several people tell me that they have seen free or very > inexpensive PDF print drivers but I have not been able to find one. Do > any of you know of a free or very inexpensive PDF print driver? > > George I don't quite understand what you are trying to accomplish: Do you want people to fill in the excel form, make a PDF from it and send it to somebody for further processing? Or do you want them to print the filled-in PDF-forms to a new PDF? Either way I see some difficulties extracting data from a PDF file which has just been "printed". (Certainly the advantage would be to retain a kind of digital hardcopy.) If the point is to get data from the user to some kind of processing, assuming there is a network structure, certainly sending the form data to a database would be the more efficient way. By the way, if you have one license of Acrobat, you might set up a "watched folder" on a public share of a network and have people "print to file" to that folder. There are free Adobe Postscript Printer Drivers to print to file with that should do the trick. One more thing: as far as I know, OpenOffice is a FREE office suite which has the built in capability to save its documents as PDF files. Might be worth checking out. Cheers, Stefan Barth -- barthdesign stefan barth Am Glaadtbach 6, 54584 J�nkerath Tel. +49 (0) 65 97 / 9 60 50 80 Fax +49 (0) 65 97 / 9 60 50 79 http://www.barthdesign.de To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
