When you're finished with your document, use File -> Export as PDF with the checkbox Create PDF form enabled. To create the initial form elements in the *.odt documents, enable the View -> Toolbars -> Form Controls tools, which allow you to add clickable checkboxes + radiobuttons, fillable text fields, pushbuttons and some more to the page(s). You can create fillable form PDFs using as well as LibreOffice. I've got the nasty feeling that what I want is fundamentally impossible except using Adobe's own rights management tools. Unfortunately, it looks like Reader cannot save filled-in data to the forms generated by iText (or generated by OO Writer). I'm wondering if anyone has has good experiences with alternatives? Either software libraries or products?ĮDIT - Thanks, matt b - I'd seen iText before but didn't know it could create forms. That's fine and it basically works (except then Pro users can't save their data - WTF?).īecause I am getting frustrated, I would ideally like to avoid Adobe products altogether (that is on the design side, for the users Reader is still a necessity or I would just do it as a db-backed web form). For those who have not experienced the many frustrations of Acrobat - by default, Reader cannot fill in a form unless it was created using Acrobat Pro >8.0 and has specifically enabled usage rights. The trick is that they need to be fillable using Adobe Reader. So this form would be for data collection, rather than report generation which seems to be the common scenario for pdf-related questions on SO. Are there any good alternatives to Adobe Acrobat for creating interactive PDFs? The terminology is a little fuzzy here - by interactive, I mean "able to be filled in", and not necessarily "scriptable".
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