On Monday 19 February 2007, Roger wrote: > Questions if I may please. > > I am reading the docos on creating PDF forms. > I think it may work as a way of obtaining information for a > calendar of events for a year or two at a time. > I am and puzzled as to how the system works to provide information > exchange. ---===--- > When a recipient of a form wants to complete entries into fields, > where does that info get saved. > Within the pdf or elsewhere ? > ---===---
It is saved in memory within Acro Reader. IIRC Acro 7 saves to a temp file on disk. > When they return a completed pdf form to me do I get the data > within the fields or elsewhere. You get the data from the fields. > ---===--- > Can anyone on a computer with a pdf reader fill in a pdf form. Yep, that's the idea: platform neutral - as long as they have Acro Reader. > ---===--- > Do they have to have the latest pdf reader, the few that will send > me the info won't bother to update to the latest adobe pdf reader > just for this when they are happy with the status quo. Unless you use Acro 7 specific features no. I would recommend a minimum of V 5.0 though. > ---===--- > How do they save the info, is it just <crtl s>. They do not 'save' it, they submit via email or php to a webserver. > ---===--- > Is it sent back as the original pdf or does it get renamed to show > it contains info in the fields. Neither. The form data is sent as plain text eg: Name: Joe Sample (for example) > ---===--- > Is there a necessity to learn javascript, or can the form be very > basic. ---===--- > There is no need to learn javascript, but there are tons of examples in the PDF reference docs. > Thanks > Roger > > Peter
