 Permalink for comment 469034 RE[6]: PDF reader ? by phoenix on
Tue 5th Apr 2011 02:49 UTC in reply to "RE[5]: PDF reader ?"
Member since:  The worst PDF I've ever come across is an
information update request form for the provincial ministry of
education. It's a PDF, with a bunch of Forms fields you edit.
Then you click a button to submit the PDF ... which runs a bunch
of script to create ... a PDF, that is attached to an e-mail,
and sent via MAPI (which means it won't work on non-Windows
systems, or even Windows systems without MS Office installed).
And it's just a handful of text fields!!  This is the "new and
improved, network-enabled" version of this form. Previously, you
had to call the ministry, they'd fax you a form, you fill it
out, and fax it back.  It's things like this that just scream to
be made into a web-based form, with a database behind it.  It's
things like this that give PDF a bad name. ;)  Reply Parent
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