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Topic: Re: Can Acrobat Forms show/print expandable fields????
Conf: (P-PDF) General, Msg: 49520
From: cmdillon
Date: 5/29/2002 04:32 PM

By the way, In case any Acrobat developers are listening...

Giving PDF Form users the ability to attach documents from their hard drive to
the Form and have that sent along with the form submission would be a nice
function.

Connie


On 6/23/00 5:03:00 AM, cmdillon wrote:
>Many Thanks, That will
>work....
>
>Connie
>
>On 6/23/00 3:20:09 AM, kt wrote:
>>>From: "Connie"
>>
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>>Thanks for your reply Kas.
>>I have a follow up question....
>>
>>I'm looking for a way to have a text field in a form that will accommodate
>>a varying amount of text. In other words,
>>some users will input several lines of text, some users will input several
>>pages of text. There is no way for me to
>>predict how much text will be input.
>>
>>If there is no way that an Acrobat form will reliably print the entire
>>contents of the text field, is there any way to allow users to attach
>>documents (i.e. MS Word documents) to the form that will be attached and
>>transmitted upon submission of the form?
>>
>>Thanks in advance for any answers!
>>
>>Connie Dillon
>>
>
>Connie,
>
>Acrobat and the Business Tools edition
>($79) will embed or attach files
>that way, but users of Reader can't do
>it.
>
>I don't think PDF text fields will do
>what you want, the way you describe
>it, nor will HTML of course. Fields
>always have a certain bounding-box
>physical display size. What I think most
>serious forms CGI experts would do
>in this case is let the user enter
>his/her text in a generously sized
>field, then use the Submit button to
>transmit that text to the server, then
>have a CGI script at the server send a
>confirmation back to the user. The
>confirmation could consist of a new,
>dynamically generated PDF or HTML doc
>tailored to fit the length of the
>person's input. Follow me? Then the user
>can print it out and it will print
>correctly, in its entirety. The key is
>to have a script on the server that
>generates a NEW doc containing the
>person's field data.
>
>As you know, CGI can be implemented in
>many languages, Perl and C being
>probably the most common... and there
>are third-party libraries to help
>with dynamic PDF or HTML generation.
>Some links on Perl-generated PDF can
>be found at
>http://www.acroforms.com/dynamicPDF.html
>.
>
>From this point on, it's no longer
>"easy" (but not exactly hard, either).
>
>
>
>
>Kas Thomas
>
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