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I saw this one <A href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/">http://www.surveymonkey.com/</A> it is an online thing, but it seems like what you need.<BR><BR>Joseph Wennechuk<BR>________________<BR><BR><BR><BR> <BR>
> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 15:36:30 -0400<BR>> From: unsolicited@swiz.ca<BR>> To: kwlug-disc@kwlug.org<BR>> Subject: [kwlug-disc] (Windows) savable pdf forms?<BR>> <BR>> I will be collecting a bunch of information (name, phone number, <BR>> e-mail address).<BR>> <BR>> I understand I can create an openoffice document with fields, export <BR>> as pdf, and create a pdf form.<BR>> <BR>> As far as I know, people could then open up the form (in Acrobat <BR>> Reader), fill it out, and print it. And that's it. They can't save it, <BR>> e-mail it, nothing, and, of course, nothing comes back to me to be <BR>> able to do anything useful with the data except reenter the data.<BR>> <BR>> I have no choice, but the clients will all be using Windows, and <BR>> Acrobat Reader. I have no ability to install Okular, Foxit, or <BR>> anything extra, everywhere. It's hard enough to get them to open <BR>> e-mail, an attachment is going to be challenging, and other software <BR>> is right out. We are not in an alternate dimension where they're all <BR>> running Kubuntu.<BR>> <BR>> Poking about with google searches, I see there are web sites, or were, <BR>> such as pdffiller.com, that would take a pdf form and let the user <BR>> fill it out on the web. I've seen no hints that a data record could be <BR>> extracted and sent back to me. All such free sites I could find are no <BR>> longer free.<BR>> <BR>> - anyone know of such a free site out there (still?)?<BR>> <BR>> - how might I go about getting a savable pdf form, starting with <BR>> OpenOffice, and ending with windows acrobat reader savable files?<BR>> <BR>> - how might I make this webable, html + xml files?<BR>> - e.g. Print blanks for people to fill out on-site, .pdf's to send <BR>> to people to fill out then print, and/or a web page to fill out, if <BR>> possible.<BR>> <BR>> - what are the concepts / magic search terms I am looking for, having <BR>> received such a filled out pdf, to have the form processed and append <BR>> a record to a database (openoffice spreadsheet for the moment.)<BR>> <BR>> - suppose a web page is possible, what am I looking for / search terms <BR>> in terms of a foss package, that would do that back end part such as <BR>> let them inquire for their last form, update it, and the office can <BR>> then look at the current records?<BR>> <BR>> - there aren't really any back end servers available, no real front <BR>> end user expertise to create their own sql queries / reports on the <BR>> fly, and few web storage facilities available beyond something like <BR>> google docs. At this stage, openoffice spreadsheets and documents are <BR>> all that's available, which is ok as this process will result in <BR>> traversing the user exercise of figuring out what reports need to come <BR>> out, and therefore what data needs to be collected - which is to say, <BR>> cause the system requirements to be defined.<BR>> <BR>> What FOSS is out there in this area, and what is it I'm groping <BR>> towards in terms of concepts or search terms.<BR>> <BR>> Thanks for any thoughts, ideas, suggestions.<BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> kwlug-disc_kwlug.org mailing list<BR>> kwlug-disc_kwlug.org@kwlug.org<BR>> http://astoria.ccjclearline.com/mailman/listinfo/kwlug-disc_kwlug.org<BR> </body>
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