[sleepingfish]

Any handy hints/links before I delve into the horrible sounding PDF Template world?

[Mr Fred]

what you going to do with it.

just as easy to make your own.

or ask for freebies.

[sleepingfish]

The plan is to make my own, the details are a bit thin on the ground at the moment.

The idea seems to be a template for a report, featuring a Front page, middle pages, and last (totals) page.

What app would be good to use - InDesign?

[seen.to]

I just make my report in Word as I would anyway then convert to PDF with Adobe Acrobat Pro - there are much cheaper solutions out there...

I got a free copy of Office Ready PDF with my last McAfee subscription, one user license I guess and I never use it - Oli - you wan't it to give away as a prize in your next competition?

A quick Google to find out if the software I don't use is any good (never used it so I don't know) showed someone selling a 10 user license for $149. The search also revealed this about FREE (my favorite price) PDF stuff - http://www.pdfzone.com/special_inter...nterprise.html

[stickmus]

If you have InDesign i'd use that.

It makes pdf creation piss easy. I used to use it for all my quotes/invoices.

Make layout look nice.
Export as pdf.

You may need to tweek settings to suite, but it beats word's crap notion that you can't print a full page.

[sleepingfish]

The saga continues....

XML is generated from an existing app.

I need something that will let me create a PDF with fillable forms.

Then I'm thinking of using something like CuteFTP Form Filler to bring in the data from the XML files.

[tomson]

Originally Posted by sleepingfish

I need something that will let me create a PDF with fillable forms.

Can't you do that with Acrobat using the form tool?

[Brown]

Originally Posted by tomson

tool?

bit harsh.

[seen.to]

Originally Posted by Brown

bit harsh.

lol

[eightpoint]

Acrobat 6 - using inbuilt forms tool, everytime

[sleepingfish]

Cheers,

I've just got my head partially round them - seems a bit of an odd environment for controlling the layout (InDesign or Illustrator would be better but don't have form tools).

Now the problem I'm faced with is that the xml data being brought in to the form can be various lengths.
I need to make sure that the first and last page of the form are differently formatted to the middle pages, but I don't kow how to find out if the PDF is at the last page - the idea being that once it is, it can be told to use a different page layout.

[tomson]

Originally Posted by sleepingfish

Cheers,

I've just got my head partially round them - seems a bit of an odd environment for controlling the layout (InDesign or Illustrator would be better but don't have form tools).

Lay it all out in InDesign and just add the form elements in Acrobat, surely?

[sleepingfish]

Don't call me shirley.

Yes you're right, I haven't looked at it that thoroughly as the main problem now seems to be getting the pdf to change to a different template/layout for the first and last pages.