Gleen,

I'm also interested in this issue. Can an Adobe Acrobat file created by
someone else be modified without access to their ORIGINAL file?

Winnie

At 07:27 PM 3/19/1998 -0600, you wrote:
>Glenn -
>
>Most of those forms can be made into interactive forms (which can be
>completed with nothing more than the Acrobat Reader, the free software).
>To do this you need Acrobat Exchange which has several tools, including
>form fields which can be inserted and customized for various options,
>e.g., font, number of characters, etc.  You can also use Exchange to
>create forms which launch other applications, for instance, if the
>indirect costs are limited or there is required cost share, you can launch
>Excel from inside the Acrobat form and complete calculations on
>underrecovery and total cost share.  Exchange can do many more things
>which are quite useful (direct web link, launch an email message, ...).  I
>urge you to check out the full Acrobat package which includes the Reader
>(free portion), Acrobat Exchange, and Acrobat Distiller (postscript
>handler).  If you have specific questions, contact me directly at my
>personal email address.  I may be able to give you some assistance.
>
>Rosemary
>
>On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Glenn Krell wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>
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