Re: pdf forms without Adobe Acrobat -also posted on macosxdev
Re: pdf forms without Adobe Acrobat -also posted on macosxdev
- Subject: Re: pdf forms without Adobe Acrobat -also posted on macosxdev
- From: Alex Rice <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 03:12:50 -0700
On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 06:00 AM, Andrew Kinnie wrote:
Greetings:
I made the mistake of purchasing Adobe Acrobat because I wanted to be
able to create and save pdf forms that could themselves be saved after
filled out. You can do that with Acrobat (not Reader).
But "not Reader", you mean creation of the forms. Reader can fill-out
forms, but not create them. Preview.app cannot fill-out forms.
I downloaded a bunch of forms from the government, but they are not
editable. I used Acrobat to create editable fields on the forms, that
can then be printed and saved as pdf forms. Unfortunately, either
that is the most buggy piece of software I've ever seen, or it is just
me, because it unexpected quits constantly at first, and now won't
even load without unexpectedly quitting. I've reinstalled it
repeatedly, no go.
Try updating to Acrobat 5.0.5. Seems perfectly stable to me on OS X
10.2. I'm no power user but it seems like maybe you aren't using the
current version.
1. Is there another app that can do the same thing? or
I don't know of any other app that can create forms in PDF. I'm
probably just not aware of them.
2. Is this something that can be relatively easily done using Cocoa?
Guessing no! if it were relatively easy under Cocoa then Preview.app
would already have this functionality. It's probably not easy under any
programming environment. Maybe read the PDF specification and
investigate Adobe's SDK to get an idea of what kind of task this would
be.
Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
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