I work for a City department that is still using countless paper forms to conduct routine departmental business. My assignment is to get all the City and State forms commonly used here and convert them to forms that the users can fill out at their PCs. My preferred tool for this task is Adobe Acrobat, but the users complain that they cannot save partially completed PDF forms to disk for later completion. We cannot afford licensing for all users to have full Adobe Acrobat package access, so I don’t have the option of supplying everybody with Acrobat Distiller or Acrobat Printer drivers.
I have attempted to install GhostScript, GhostView, RedMon, and Free PDF as an option, but this is giving me unacceptable results, and demands a level of end-user sophistication that we simply don’t have in this department.
I have heard that there is a “Plug In” for the free Adobe Acrobat Reader that facilitates the saving and retrieval of partially completed forms, but I am unable to locate any such plug-in.
Any tips on saving lengthy, partially completed Adobe Acrobat forms – utilizing any available freeware – would be greatly appreciated.
I realize that I have the option of using MS WORD forms tools – or other WP utilities – but I was hoping to make ADOBE our Deparmental standard and our Intranet standard. These forms must sometimes be completed by more than one unit, not all of which have the same WP software.
Thanks.
ted_davis@ci.sf.ca.us
