If you open Acrobat Reader, click on Help, then on the Online Guide, you
then go to Viewing PDF Documents and read/print the instructions for
Filling Out Forms.  This has worked for us.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glenn Krell [SMTP:xxxxxx@UCLINK4.BERKELEY.EDU]
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 1998 11:44 AM
> To:   Multiple recipients of list RESADM-L
> Subject:      Adobe Acrobat ERA-type question
>
> Hello all,
>
> Here is a general interest ERA (electronic research administration)
> question.  One facet of ERA is that many of us download various agency
> forms from the web using Adobe Acrobat.
>
> Has anyone had any success making those pdf (portable document format)
> forms into "interactive" forms using Acrobat 3.01?  Note that that is
> the
> software you pay for, as opposed to the free software available at
> http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/readstep.html  for reading and
> printing pdf files from websites (quite useful by the way).
>
> The problem we are having is: we download and print these agency pdf
> forms,
> and then have to use a typewriter to fill them out.  Has anyone made
> progress in this area? or is there a better method for doing this?
>
> Many thanks in advance!
> - Glenn Krell