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Have to agree with Justice here. I think it's outrageous what Adobe is charging for the Document server. If they REALLY wanted to make more $$ what they would do is make some sort of special Adobe Acrobat software (not the document server extensions software of course). They could charge more for it (say $600 or something) and let it have the same capabilities as this document server software in that it can allow PDF's viewed in the Reader to save data. Heck, that could be the ONLY thing really "fancy" in this special version of Acrobat. I know several state agencies that would consider buying that software to make PDF's that which save data. I don't know of any PA state agency that would even consider purchasing the document server software with that kind of price tag. Maybe they're just targeting federal government. They'll buy into anything. Yes enough rant now, but I always have trouble seeing Adobe's logic in things. They seem to be most concerned with $$, and they better live it up. Sooner or later, Microsoft is going to make some sort of free Word Reader software that WILL allow data to be saved on docs (they have something out now that allows a document to be viewed, but that's all). Adobe will then see all sorts of profit loss in my opinion. Anyway, till Adobe decides to change things, there's always a few other good solutions for data saving, like this one available here: http://www.savepdf.com That's about the best low cost solution I've seen yet. It's a bit clunky, and it's not for your "lower leveled" users, but it works. Brian Mihalic LAN Technician The PA Board of Law Examiners -----Original Message----- From: Justice Gradowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 25, 2004 11:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PDF-Forms] Filling out & saving a PDF form using Reader PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __________________________________________________________________ That is the beauty of free enterprise, someone will hopefully see that need and exploit it and kick Adobe's @$$, then they will have to lower the price, but then again look how well this has worked in the oil/gas market and healthcare industries here in the good ol' U.S. of A.(being sarcastic of course) Sorry, I will stop now, on to issues that will actually help users on this group. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lauterbach.Mark Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 8:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PDF-Forms] Filling out & saving a PDF form using Reader PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __________________________________________________________________ The real kicker is that the price doesn't go down until you're looking at over 100 licenses (your first 'Mil...) I'd sure like to know the justification of that price (besides the usual "that's capitalism" rhetoric). Bummer - I concur Mark -----Original Message----- From: Justice Gradowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March 25, 2004 11:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PDF-Forms] Filling out & saving a PDF form using Reader PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __________________________________________________________________ Bummer. Too bad Adobe is so greedy. I don't see how small businesses or personal users could do this if the per form license is $10,000+. Guess the cost of living in San Jose is a little higher than it is here is Bakersfield? Justice -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Steinbach Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 8:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PDF-Forms] Filling out & saving a PDF form using Reader PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | http://www.pdfzone.com/ __________________________________________________________________ This button is based on a quick hack exploiting a kind of "hole" in former versions of PDF forms. The newer versions (PDF 1.5 / Acrobat 6.x) do not support this system any more ( -> write the content of the fields into global JavaScript variables and the Reader puts those variables automaticly but _temporarily_ into a .js file on a local disk; manually copying this file before closing the current document or opening another PDF "saves" the data. Re-populating the form is done by putting the glob.js file back in the right directory before reopening the corresponding document). I heard that Adobe has reduced the size of the variables so that this method has become unusable with the newer versions. Christian Steinbach ACD Luxemburg --- Justice Gradowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | > http://www.pdfzone.com/ > __________________________________________________________________ > > What about the reader save button? > www.readersave.com > > Or is this only for non-commercial applications? > > Justice > Mit sch�nen Gr��en von Yahoo! Mail - http://mail.yahoo.de To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
