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Topic: Dynamic Form Creation
Conf: (P-PDF) Acrobat 6.0, Msg: 86351
From: HeatherBrumm
Date: 4/17/2003 06:05 AM

Thanks for the feedback, even though I wish you had better
information for me.

When I look at the Acrobat 6.0 Professional web page and look at
the Developer Resources under Downloads, the FDF kit is still for
version 5.0. So even though they may not have new/enhanced
options, does this mean that the old ways will still work?

I was so hoping Adobe would make advances in dynamic PDF
forms.

Thanks again,

Heather


On 4/9/2003 8:28:47 PM, jann wrote:
>Think you've just asked a
>$64,000 question,
>Heather.

Early days I know,
>but it would appear that after
>years of touting PDF Forms as
>being easy to use technology
>(every demo I've been to, even
>the non-techy ones, featured
>an over-excited Adobe employee
>running through those phoney
>Synchros forms) they have
>finally admitted defeat and
>are only including creation
>tools in their top price,
>niche (?) product.

I'm a fan
>of Acrobat forms - every
>company I show them to have
>been keen to know more. Until
>I tell them that Adobe never
>got it together to offer a
>modestly priced, turnkey
>server solution for their use.
>Frankly, the fact that Adobe
>assumed that every office had
>its resident CGI expert that
>could make the forms work is
>an indication of how far
>removed Adobe marketing people
>are from the real world.

So
>now it looks like Forms
>creation will be repositioned
>as being for the big boys
>only. In which case this
>wonderful opportunity has just
>been flushed down the pan.
>(Adobe seem to specialise in
>doing this kind of
>thing...)

Interestingly I see
>that Microsoft SharePoint
>Portal Server - a rather
>under-promoted but clever
>piece of software which
>effectively creates an
>easy-to-use document
>repository and more - is being
>repositioned as part of the
>Office product line, possibly
>preparing it for more
>wide-scale marketing.

If I
>were Microsoft, I'd include
>their admittedly vague Forms
>solution as part of this new
>'server' and price it
>aggressively. Fully searchable
>document management and
>automated forms processing in
>a single box - can't see many
>companies going for that, can
>you? :O) This little
>manoeuvre would stop Adobe's
>corporate PDF strategy in its
>tracks.