I've finally had a gut-full of Acrobat reader, it just goes from badto worse. It used to be excellent but now I can't stand it. Damn thinglocks up all the time (esp when shutting down Windows) and generallyscrews things up. And the browser plug-in is borderline useless, whichmakes viewing 50 datasheets a day a real pain.What are the alternatives people are using?Note, I'm talking about a PDF *viewer*, not a PDF creator.ThanksDave.

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Jim Thompson posted toIn the MSWin world AR 8 can do this. Not in any other case that iknow of.

RST Engineering (jw) posted toWhen they have a worthwhile fillable forms writer i might getinterested.

Try the PDF-XChange Viewer - it will do numerous things that otherswont allow and its also free, and you CAN fill and save forms.there is both a standard version thats about 13MB to download andinlcudes help files etc - or a portable version that is just over MBto download.HTHStoufville

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JeffM 18 years ago

My 1st thought was to sent them the thing in *.DOC, have them fill in the blanks and do a Print-to-document thru one of the many Output-as-PDF printer drivers,

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't.require+does-not-*&strip=1#Creator then have them sent the PDF back to you.

...then I thought about **why PDF?** I'm thinking you want the *data* portions to be easily edited but NOT the *boilerplate*--so you don't have to go back over the whole thing with a fine-toothed comb. Yes?? I don't use Adobe's PDF-creation app, but I'm assuming this can be done with *locked layers*

--but **they** need to have the writer app to do this (and one assumes the proper VERSION).

PDF editing sounds like a quagmire.

ISTM this is something to do thru a Web page e.g. Javascript.

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Rich Grise 18 years ago

MS Word, if they have MS Word. It has a fill-in form facility, where the filled-in form is savable, but the form itself is write-protected, and can be password-protected.

If the customer doesn't have Word, you could put an HTML form on your web page and write a little script to capture the data and print it in any format you want.

Good Luck! Rich

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JosephKK 18 years ago

Jim Thompson snipped-for-privacy@My-Web-Site.com posted to sci.electronics.design:

In the MSWin world AR 8 can do this. Not in any other case that i know of.

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JosephKK 18 years ago

Jim Thompson snipped-for-privacy@My-Web-Site.com posted to sci.electronics.design:

Actually, they always have. Remember Adobe Type Manager? They owned the original Postscript (tm) patents. (from their old *nix days)

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JosephKK 18 years ago

RST Engineering (jw) snipped-for-privacy@rstengineering.com posted to sci.electronics.design:

When they have a worthwhile fillable forms writer i might get interested.

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JeffM 18 years ago

Boris' link news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com may have provided the answer:

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*+*-Web-Browser-with-JavaScript-*+*-*-PDF-form-you-want-customers-to-fill-out-*-*-*-*-*+*-*-*-*-buy+Acrobat+zzz+Free+add+Requirements&strip=1

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stoufville 18 years ago

Try the PDF-XChange Viewer - it will do numerous things that others wont allow and its also free, and you CAN fill and save forms.

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there is both a standard version thats about 13MB to download and inlcudes help files etc - or a portable version that is just over MB to download.

HTH

Stoufville

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