Chuck Stratton wrote:
Hi,
I have several PDF forms I created in Adobe Designer. Students fill them
out and email back as an XML data file. I want to create a database in Base
and use the forms for data input. Is there anyway to convert/import the PDF
Forms and use them as forms in Base? Adobe Designer will let me save the
file as .pdf, .tds, or .xdp . They say .xdp is xml. I have saved one as
.xdp and opened in Base but I get script, and design view is not available.
Thanks,
Chuck S.
You really get around Charles!
OOo, to my knowledge, will not directly read the returned XML. OOo,
will, however, handle something called XForms. Here is a brief
presentation that tells you something about them:
http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2004/presentations/friday/vogelheim_XForms.pdf
The presentation is a few years old now. I am not aware of what OOo can
do with XForms, but it is worth investigating. More interesting, is what
can you do from a database perspective with the forms. I see a few
posibilities.
XForms may be able to work with Base directly. Have you checked the
documentation project for XForms documentation?
You may need to transform your data into something usable.
--
Andrew Pitonyak
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