Electronic Documents – more to come…
I'm overwhelmed at the response that I've gotten to the article that I wrote on using Adobe Acrobat to handle electronic documents. I barely scratched the surface in that article. There is so much more to be discussed, and so now I've got to map out a second article. One thing I'll cover is how to use Acrobat to fill in forms, which seems to be something that people have no idea is an available option.
Exhibit A: my wife (who's a lawyer) needed to fill out a grant application for the bar association group that she is involved with. She asked her firm's computer people if it was possible to scan the document and then somehow fill it out. They told her that was not possible. Of course, they are totally wrong. I scanned the 9 pages in about 5 minutes with my little Canon 690U ($79) USB scanner, and then created form fields for the document with Acrobat. The next time someone wants to fill out that grant application form they can do it with their computer instead of a typewriter. Why use typewriters for stuff like this?