John Jason Jordan wrote: > > As it turns out, Adobe failed to send me the link to their website that > I have to go to in order to download the free trial. After reading what > you said I decided to forget about it. I don't really want Acrobat 7.0 > anyway.
Not worth the effort that I can tell, but the link is: http://www.adobe.com/downloads/ http://www.adobe.com/downloads/#acrobatfamily > >> In the long run it may be easier to redesign the form; put the special >> font/characters in the text (they do print when I put them in the text >> area of my test PDF), and put the question/answers in the dropdowns. >> Either that or don't use a dropdown but instead simply let them fill in >> the blanks. > > The problem with that is that the majority of the students are > semi-computer illiterate. I've tried to get them to type with IPA and > their resistance is amazing. "I don't know how to do it, therefore it > must not be important." They don't even want to bother with hex or > decimal codes, or Insert Special Character. They'd rather print out a > blank form and fill it in with their handwriting. So the benefit of the > PDF form with the characters in the drop-down is that they don't have > to know how to type the special characters. In fact, to do the > homework, exam, or practice session, they have no choice but to use the > drop-down. I guess that I'm still confused. If the character is on the PDF form and the dropdown is the "what is this" there should be no need to use decimal/hex/insert special character at all: <special character in text> this is a <dropdown with answers> or <special character in text> this is a <blank line to fill in by text> > >> You might want to explore using Scribus for this type of work. > > I'm ahead of you. Someone on an Ubuntu forum already pointed out that > Scribus could do "PDF fields" in a document. "PDF fields" is what > Scribus calls form controls. Scribus has the same kinds of forms as > OOo, except that database connectivity is not an option. However, for > my purposes, a simple list is enough. > > The problem is that Scribus currently suffers from the same limitation > as OOo. When they write the PDF fields plugin they hard coded it to use > only five different fonts (Courier, Helvetica, Times, Zapf Dingbats and > Symbols). Five choices is a lot better than OOo's one choice, but for > me it makes no difference. None of the five choices have the IPA > characters I need. Interesting. I wonder why there is no way to add another. This might be of interest: http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=fonts1 http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=fonts2 http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=fonts3 <== http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=fonts4 http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=fonts5 > > Thanks a million for all your efforts in this matter! Good luck & please followup with what you finally end up doing. I know that there are a lot of others here that are in a similar situation. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
