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Jim, You make some very good points...I was thinking about this yesterday, but you beat me to the punch. Most people will pop for $10 or $15 bucks without too much of a squawk. The investment has been made in Approval, so bring the price down and sell the heck out of it. I'd pop in an instant for Approval with a lower cost (if I didn't already have the full version of Acrobat). I'm dreaming here, but every form opened on a computer with Reader and without Approval could have a shameless plug: save this form (and all forms) on your computer for only $10.00. Click here to submit your credit card and receive an unlock code. Man, I'd take my millions of $10 and laugh all the way to the bank. Rich -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Plante Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 7:58 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/ __________________________________________________________________ On Mar 26, 2004, at 7:54 AM, Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > > PDF-Forms is a service provided by PDFzone.com | > http://www.pdfzone.com/ > __________________________________________________________________ > > At 08:42 AM 3/26/2004, James Plante wrote: >> Adobe can either wake up and provide the functionality which its >> customers want, or risk losing those customers to the open source >> programs. There are already several PDF creation programs available >> free. It's just a matter of time before those become extended to >> provide the additional functionality that users want. > > > Doubtful. > > There are both legal and technical hurdles that prevent any > 3rd party from implementing a 100% Acrobat compatible PDF-based forms > solutions... > > To stop any conspiracy theorists out there, I will point out > that such hurdles were NOT put there on purpose by Adobe to prevent > duplication - just worked out that way... > > > Leonard There are technical and legal hurdles to implementing translators for MS Word files, too, but that hasn't stopped the open source community from writing some pretty good ones. Admittedly, they're not perfect. But MS often doesn't translate its own prior-version files accurately, either. My hope is that Adobe will find a way to offer this capability to their Reader users at an economically affordable cost--preferably <before> they get supplanted by an open source solution rather than in reaction to one. They make a good product, and Acrobat (full) just keeps getting better, despite our complaints and gripes. So far, this capability is offered only to large institutions with deep pockets and complex networks. They need a low-volume grass-roots solution, one they can make money with on a volume basis. Three institutions at $50K ea = $150K. Three million individuals at $10/ea = $30,000,000! Small change? Face it: $40 a copy didn't work well with Approval, so sales are low. So reduce the price. Sell it! It's all profit now. A bank with 3,000 seats isn't going to pay $120,000 for 3000 copies of Approval, but they might bite for $60K. Let the price be somewhat less than the functional utility offered, because the goal of any institution (including Adobe) is to add to the bottom line. Jim Plante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html To change your subscription: http://www.pdfzone.com/discussions/lists-pdfforms.html
