[cw-discuss] Miserable 6.0 experience...

[Bill]

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From: James E. LaBarre (jamesl at bestweb.net)
Subject: Re: [cw-discuss] Miserable 6.0 experience...
Date: 2/16/2007 11:10:27a

> Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote:
> > I understand, but if you have to revise such documents, I do not envy
> > you. I have had to revise a lot of Word docs and many times you have
> > to start from scratch and copy/paste the content or parts of it from
> > the old file to the new. You even have to copy it into a text editor
> > first to ensure that the text is clean.
> > 
> > My choice has been FrameMaker. Even though it does not by default
> > support things like form fields etc, you can add a lot of such things
> > into it by adding some minor PostScript code (which you can do from
> > within FM) and PDF it, which usually is the end format anyway.
> 
> Would it be possible to output those PDFs as "fillable forms" though? 

Have you taken FoxIT for a test drive?

Learn about it here:  http://www.foxitsoftware.com/

With it installed as my default .PDF reader, once in a while Firefox will
display a box about something-or-other (usually some sort of Javascript)
needing a plug-in for FoxIT to be able to handle an on-line form. So far
every time I've clicked 'okay, load it' it's gone ahead and worked okay.

The most recent was Form 8913 on the IRS site - you know, the Federal
Excise Tax refund they've been ordered to give us? Seems the generous
IRS ''allowance'' if you don't have your old bills (that being $40 for two) is
just a tad short. We actually should be getting $116 back. Took me about
twenty minutes to add it up and make us another $76. Woohoo!

Bill