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High Tom,

yes PDF is free meaning you have not to pay in advance, a least as you use 
only basic functions and its not a commercial use. But what when you receive 
a document with special features?

Its the same situation I had at the university long time ago: At this time 
MSWord was "free" in the sense that nobody cared where you get your license 
from, and all students used it and requesetd its use in their offces later 
on.

Walther


is free in the Am Mittwoch, 20. Juni 2012 schrieb Tom Davies:
Hi :)
Yes, sadly i do realise that Pdf is a fairly ethically bad format BUT i do
have to live in the real world too.  Pdf is difficult to avoid and there
doesn't seem to be much alternative yet.  One of the key requirements of
the op was that no special program would have to be installed.  Pdf readers
are likely to already be installed on most peoples systems.  The docs team
have offered one of the guides as e-pub but pdf remains dominant. 

I would recommend moving away from Adobe Reader because there are a lot of
alternatives and i think they are almost all better.  Adobe seems to have
frequent 'security' updates but many would claim that it needs them because
it is so widely used that it is a target.  The theory is that if other
programs were so widespread then they would have similar level of trouble. 
It's a poor argument but appears popular with people that refuse to try
alternatives. 

Pdf is free (small f) just not Free in a Libre sense. 
Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Wed, 20/6/12, Walther Koehler <w.koehler@onlinemed.de> wrote:

From: Walther Koehler <w.koehler@onlinemed.de>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] We want to create a questionnaire...
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Wednesday, 20 June, 2012, 9:58

High Tom

do you really recommend a proprietary format like pdf in an open source
environment?

You know, PDF is licensed by Adobe and even a simple end user has to
subscribe a contract with this company. Have you ever read this license
agreement? So PDF ist NOT free.

Walther

Am Mittwoch, 20. Juni 2012 schrieb Tom Davies:
Hi :)
Pdf is a fairly universal format and most people already have soem
version of Adobe Reader on their machine because Pdf and Adobe are  so
widespread. There are better Pdf readers such as Foxit (also free) or
OpenSource ones. LibreOffice can read Pdf but editing them is tricky so
it's best to keep an original in an OpenDocument Format such as Odt. 
Foxit is very fast compared to the Adobe one and doesn't keep demanding
you upgrade it but like i say most people already have an Adobe Reader
installed.

Pdf tends to be downloadable rather than viewed and filled-in on a
web-site. 

Perhaps you are looking for an html answer?
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_forms.asp
I'm not sure what you need on the server-side in order to keep track of
the input.  It's one of those things i have managed to avoid needing so
far but i really should get to grips with it as i am fairly sure our
web-hosts already have everything we need just waiting to be used.

Regards from
Tom :)



--- On Wed, 20/6/12, JenS8 <jennys8.amabel@dfgh.net> wrote:

From: JenS8 <jennys8.amabel@dfgh.net>
Subject: [libreoffice-users] We want to create a questionnaire...
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Wednesday, 20 June, 2012, 2:10

Hello,

We want to create a questionaire that people can fill out on their
computer and email back to us when complete.

How can we create a document with the following properties:

1. When person clicks on a blank, they can type in their answer, and
the "underline characters" [ _______ ] don't move to the right
2. We want some parts of the form to be uneditable. For example, the
headers, the instructions, the text that says what we expect in every
blank.
3.The document can be saved when completed, or even when partially
completed 4. Check-boxes can be clicked on
5.Radio buttons (multiple choice) can be clicked on
6.The document is universal:
   a. People using Windows, Mac, Linux, Playbook, tablets can work on the
form
   b. People don't have to download a special program to fill the form


Thank you very much.

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