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This is an absolutely legitimate and well thought out approach. It can actually cover many workflows. There may be technical implications (as you are producing HTML, which gives a lot of control out of your hands), but it works.
Max Wyss PRODOK Engineering Low Paper workflows, Smart documents, PDF forms CH-8906 Bonstetten, Switzerland
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Shameless Plug:
My next conference appearances and workshops:
• Conference presentations at the 2004 Symposium of the BFMA, May 23 to 27 in Reno, Nevada (http://www.bfma.org) and pre-/post-conference workshop, May 22/23 and 27, organized by essociates Group (http://www.essociatesgroup.com/AdvancedAcrobatForms.htm)
• And, as always, available for on-site workshops/tutorials/consulting.
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Our solution to this problem was to put together a web server using a very low-cost version of one of our own products. Users can upload an Acrobat PDF file containing an Acrobat form, the server extracts the form data (field type, position, etc.), the web site rasterizes the PDF with GhostScript, and creates an HTML page or pages that match the original PDF and, instead of Acrobat forms, uses HTML to capture the data.
At that point we can do whatever we like with the data, convert it to FDF, put it in a database, etc.
While not the same as having a PDF file that works anywhere a la Reader, our users didn't think it was too much to ask to have Acrobat form users uploading the PDF to a "fill-in-the-form" web page as long as the web page was free.
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