WAS Accessibility annoyance ... NEW: PDF/Adobe FormServer

[Kevin Bishop]

It's my understanding that PDF is an open standard, not exactly
proprietary.  PDFs can be produced without Adobe software. 

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/adobepdf.html
http://www.masternewmedia.com/issue16/pdfwithoutacrobat.htm


Speaking of Adobe and PDF ... Does anyone have any experience with their
form server?  
http://www.adobe.com/products/server/formserver/main.html


If so, I'd love to hear how you're using it, which business processes it
supports, how well it seems to work, how your users like it, etc.  Is
form creation, editing, data entry, verification, calculation et. al. as
easy as they make it sound?  Are you using digital signatures or other
forms of authentication?  How (well) does it work with XML-formatted
data or other XML-based e-forms?

We're finding that our user community seems to like PDFs in a variety of
contexts.  We're also receiving more and more requests for web-based
forms. So, allowing users to create and exchange form data on their own
would be ... good.   

Nancy: What issues do you have with PDFs and AcrobatReader 5.0?

Thanks.
-kb

!!!GO VOTE!!!

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Communication & Collaboration Technologies
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Raymond Wood
> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 12:09 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Accessibility annoyance of the day
> 
>
> Perhaps to a degree:  PDF is at least cross-platform.  On the 
> other hand it is still a proprietary format that requires 
> expensive software just to do anything more than read it.  I 
> thought this was the whole point of HTML -- an open standard 
> that facilitated the sharing of textual and multimedia information  ;)
>