[bcab] Re: PDF Document Editing Software

There are such things as interactive PDF documents (I think that is the correct 
term), but I have never seen one in the wild.  These allow you t fill them out, 
I once had a demonstration document that does this and it even worked with 
Jaws.  However PDF documents consist almost entirely of non-editable documents 
principly designed to be downloaded, printed and filled out by hand.  The 
electronically fillable PDF has never caught on despite being potentially in 
existence for over 5 years.
Regards.

Tristram Llewellyn
Sight and Sound Technology
Technical Support
www.sightandsound.co.uk

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Graham Page 
  To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 8:46 PM
  Subject: [bcab] Re: PDF Document Editing Software


  Hi Karina and Kerry.

  I can't answer your questions directly because as others have said, PDF 
  documents are quite simply not the format to distribute documents in if the 
  user is meant to change them.  I assume that in the case of the application 
  forms, the user is meant to print out the PDF document and write it by hand. 
  This is clearly not accessible.  There was a bit of a fad a while ago about 
  getting experts to analyse handwriting in application forms but I have not 
  heard of it recently so hopefully this practise is now discredited.

  Kerry, can you explain a little more about the process taking place here? 
  distributing a PDF for the user to change just seems an odd thing to do.

  Regards

  Graham
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Karina Gregory" <Karina.Gregory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  To: <bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 12:38 PM
  Subject: [bcab] Re: PDF Document Editing Software


  Hi Kerry,
  I'm in exactly the same situation with job application forms as some of
  them are in PDF and no other format and won't let me do anything with
  them.  Is there a way of overcoming this, because what I want to do is
  add my information in electronically.  It seems a bit of a silly format
  to me if I'm honest, why not just have a read-only word document, but if
  you want to change it you have to put a password in.
  Any ideas about how I can overcome the application forms situation?

  Thanks.

  Karina

  -----Original Message-----
  From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
  Behalf Of Kerry Painter
  Sent: 21 April 2007 11:34
  To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [bcab] Re: PDF Document Editing Software

  Sorry Daren.  NO Good.  I have documents that are already created but
  need to put my information into them.

  Thanks.

  Kerry

  -----Original Message-----
  From: bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bcab-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
  Behalf Of Darren H
  Sent: 21 April 2007 10:20
  To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [bcab] Re: PDF Document Editing Software


  Hi

  Not to edit existing ones, but I've got one that can create
  them, and it's free.

  Let me know if that's of interest.

  Darren
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Kerry Painter" <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  To: <bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 10:17 AM
  Subject: [bcab] PDF Document Editing Software


  Hi.  Does     anyone know of an accessible free or
  relatively cheap
  piece of software that will allow you to edit pdf documents?

  Thanks.

  Kerry Painter

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