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Date:      Sun, 3 Mar 2013 22:45:17 +0200
From:      Alexander Yerenkow <yerenkow@gmail.com>
To:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PDF viewer for "editable" PDFs
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2013/3/3 Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>

> Of course, it's pretty offtopic, but in my knowing there's no other office
>> format allowing to send to someone some form to fill. Read-only form. With
>> "required" fields.
>>
>
> how about HTML?
>

If you are serious - you just can't easily make HTML for fitting A4 page;
you can't easily compose form to fill; you can't send it in RO (of course,
I know that nothing is really RO, but relatively RO); you need to some
action solver when user fill in form and tries to "apply" (PDF viewer will
just simply and user-friendly ask where to save filled form, which could be
sent back).
You can't check with what program this HTML will be tried to open/fill. Any
of this partial task could be done, but in complex - that would be just
inefficient way of misusing HTML.
So, PDF forms is great for strict data exchanging between
companies/offices/users, although not widespread (somehow, it failed).

And if you just trolling me - I'm not buying :)

P.S. Let's close this offtopic anyway.


-- 
Regards,
Alexander Yerenkow



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