High Tom do you really recommend a proprietary format like pdf in an open source environment?
You know, PDF is licensed by Adobe and even a simple end user has to subscribe a contract with this company. Have you ever read this license agreement? So PDF ist NOT free. Walther Am Mittwoch, 20. Juni 2012 schrieb Tom Davies: > Hi :) > Pdf is a fairly universal format and most people already have soem version > of Adobe Reader on their machine because Pdf and Adobe are so widespread. > There are better Pdf readers such as Foxit (also free) or OpenSource ones. > LibreOffice can read Pdf but editing them is tricky so it's best to keep an > original in an OpenDocument Format such as Odt. Foxit is very fast > compared to the Adobe one and doesn't keep demanding you upgrade it but > like i say most people already have an Adobe Reader installed. > > Pdf tends to be downloadable rather than viewed and filled-in on a > web-site. > > Perhaps you are looking for an html answer? > http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp > I'm not sure what you need on the server-side in order to keep track of the > input. It's one of those things i have managed to avoid needing so far but > i really should get to grips with it as i am fairly sure our web-hosts > already have everything we need just waiting to be used. > > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > --- On Wed, 20/6/12, JenS8 <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: JenS8 <[email protected]> > Subject: [libreoffice-users] We want to create a questionnaire... > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, 20 June, 2012, 2:10 > > Hello, > > We want to create a questionaire that people can fill out on their > computer and email back to us when complete. > > How can we create a document with the following properties: > > 1. When person clicks on a blank, they can type in their answer, and > the "underline characters" [ _______ ] don't move to the right > 2. We want some parts of the form to be uneditable. For example, the > headers, the instructions, the text that says what we expect in every > blank. > 3.The document can be saved when completed, or even when partially > completed 4. Check-boxes can be clicked on > 5.Radio buttons (multiple choice) can be clicked on > 6.The document is universal: > a. People using Windows, Mac, Linux, Playbook, tablets can work on the > form > b. People don't have to download a special program to fill the form > > > Thank you very much. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/We-want-to-create-a-questionnaire-tp39 >91184.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
