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2007-03-29 13:12:27
kumar
Registered: Mar 28 2007
Posts: 4

Hi,
 

 
I have a 2 part question and wanted to know if you can help me:
 

 
a) Can an html page (with form elements like text box, radio button, drop-down boxes) be converted to pdf document?
 

 
b) Can the created pdf document have programming components like:
 
- someone selected a name from drop-down box and a text-box on the same pdf document got populated with a text
 
- if some one enters numbers in text-boxes and get a small calculation result displayed in another text box. For example there are 3 text-boxes a,b,c. C will hold the sum of numbers displayed in a & b. The reader of the document can change the value in text boxes to get updated results.
 

 
Thanks
 

 
Ratan Kumar

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
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2007-04-01 10:10:35
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tedpadova
ExpertTeam
Registered: Dec 31 2005
Posts: 848
For questiojn a: yes, you can convert HTML Web pages to PDF with many fields remaining intact.

For question b: Not all properties and especially JavaScripts from converted Web pages will work once converted to an Adobe PDF. You'll need to check the pages after converting them to see what works and what needs to be editing in Acrobat.

ted

The author of numerous books on Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and the Adobe Creative Suite, and an international speaker on Adobe Acrobat, Ted Padova is a well-known PDF guru.

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