Good stuff. Glad to see it's working and thanks for voting.
Pete Smith iMac 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM 750GB Hdrive OS X 10.6.6 On 01/03/2013, at 20:53 PM, Laura Webb wrote: > Hi Pete, Hi Neil > > Thanks to your collective advice I have now successfully completed the Proxy > Form and sent it on its way. > > Regards > Laura > > > On 01/03/2013, at 6:46 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: > > Hi Pete, Hi Laura, > > All worked fine for me. Pete, I don't know if it will help you track down > the problem - but my set-up/action was: > > OSX 10.6.8, Firefox 18.0.2 with pdf plug-in 2.4.4. > When I click on the pdf link in Firefox, it opens in Firefox with the pdf > plug-in. I then right-clicked and chose to open the pdf in preview. > > I then filled in the form in Preview and did a "save as" to the desktop. > > Then add to email (client is Entourage 2004!) > > Checked sent message and attachment is fine with form filled in. > > > HTH > > > > Cheers > > > > Neil > -- > Neil R. Houghton > Albany, Western Australia > Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 > Email: [email protected] > > > > on 1/3/13 6:00 PM, Pete Smith at [email protected] wrote: > >> Hi Laura. >> >> I just tried the form out myself from my iMac. It opened OK and I completed >> some data. My iMac, for some reason unknown to me, has stopped saving PDFs I >> open on the internet so I did the usual print to PDf instead and, lo and >> behold, I got two completely blank pages saved! Not happy Jan.... >> >> However, when the PDF is opened in Safari, there is a magenta, purple or pink >> (depending on what school you went to!) band across the top with the phrase >> "Please fill out the following form. You can save data typed into this form." >> Immediately above this banner is a toolbar with the save disk icon on the far >> left. I used that and the form saved to my folder with all data including my >> entries. I then emailed it to myself and it arrived intact. >> >> So, use the disk icon in the PDF's toolbar and it should save OK. >> >> I apologise for any inconvenience. I did the form on Acrobat Writer at work >> and did all the working and saving checks there. Unfortunately, that is a >> Windows system. Naturally, the form was opened and saved with Adobe Reader. I >> checked it was working last night when I uploaded it to the website from home >> but, although I thought I checked the saving, I may not have. I'll blame the >> wee hours of the morning. >> >> Regards, >> >> Pete Smith >> >> iMac 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo >> 4GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM >> 750GB Hdrive OS X 10.6.6 >> >> On 01/03/2013, at 16:45 PM, Laura Webb wrote: >> >>> Good afternoon all >>> >>> I completed the Proxy Form for Tuesday's meeting, and saved a copy. As >>> requested, I attached the saved copy to an email, but when checking to make >>> sure it was OK, all of the details entered are no longer visible. >>> >>> Could someone please explain where I have gone wrong and what I must do to >>> rectify the problem. >>> >>> >>> Regards >>> Laura >>> >>> > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
