Gordon concentrates on some client-side techniques you can use to collect data entered into your PDF forms and illustrates other methods of capturing form data that do not require the use of FDF or the FDF toolkit.
Working examples with step-by-step descriptions of how to populate a PDF files form fields with data processed by a webserver. One example uses Microsofts Active Server Pages (ASP) to populate a PDF form, and the other uses the ActiveX version of the FDF toolkit to populate a PDF form with data submitted from an HTML form.
Getting started with using Acrobat Forms. In his new column, Gordon Kent explores how you go about setting up PDF forms on your web site: easy ways to get data from your online Acrobat forms into a web-served database, resent as email or other common applications.
Gordon talks about his book, the new Acrobat 4.0 and publishing on the Web. Gordon is
currently the Group Product Manager at Community Newspaper Company is also retained as a consultant for a number of large corporations on PDF and publishing related projects.
Gordon Kent
is Group Product Manager at Community Newspaper Company (CNC), publishers of more than 120 newspapers
throughout Eastern Massachusetts. Kent manages the development and maintenance of
commercial-focused Internet products for CNC's TownOnline.com. Kent is the author of the Adobe Press' Internet Publishing with Acrobat. Kent
is also retained as a consultant for a number of large corporations on
PDF and publishing related projects. He can be reached at gkent@ultranet.com.
Built from the ground up, the perfect desktop PDF product for business and enterprise. Nitro PDF Professional has an uncompromising feature set so you can create, combine, edit, collaborate on and...