More On Open Office As A PDF Form Design Tool
Monday, April 2nd, 2007I’ve just completed my first production form using OpenOffice. (Warning this is a training registration form, so it is promoting my business). You can see it here.
My experience:
1) It worked pretty well, overall.
2) I used OpenOffice 2.1, and there is an update to 2.2. 2.2 seems to be better for outputting forms.
3) Using 2.1, I struggled with creating combo boxes for pull-down lists. I gave up and created them in Acrobat. Apparently a setting I used earlier was trying to link the pull-downs to a data source. That doesn’t transfer over to PDF.
4) A Mac user reported that the fonts were corrupted.
5) I saw some corrupted fonts in Windows. If I did a File > Save As… this problem went away.
Give OpenOffice a try and let me know what you think.
