Carl Young’s AcroViews

I’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.

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