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Subject:Re: Product for creating forms From:David Castro <thetechwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 3 Oct 2001 07:23:50 -0700 (PDT)
> > All members require that the printed version look identical to the
> > forms they supply if the end-user contacts them directly.
> Sorry for the late reply Kristin, but I noticed you didn't get many others
> so thought I'd throw my pennies in. PDF Fill-In Forms sound like they would
> fit the bill nicely. The IRS uses them extensively for this purpose, check
> them out at: http://www.irs.gov/forms_pubs/fillin.html and see if this is
> what you're after.
Oooh...I tried. I really did. I *tried* not to reply with a post to tell you
that JavaServer Pages could help with this problem. I do seem to be on a bent
with that subject, lately, thinking of it as the panacea for all of our
technical writing ills.
But, anyway, if you opt to do PDF Fill-In Forms, and want to see how to code
the back end to store the entries in a database, you can check out the demo
that I created a few months back, at http://jsp.davidcastro.com/acrobat .
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