Does it have to be PDF ?

Here we gather data very sucessfully with excel. Agents send us fulfilled excel sheets (our format) and then it is peace of cake to get it into fox.

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>>>So... is there such an animal? A PDF writer which will create a distributable PDF with form/fields, such than can be automated from within VFP and that the form with data can be saved and sent back?
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>>Why automate the PDF process at the 'remote end'? If I understand correctly, you need data in a PDF. Develop a FoxPro application to gather and send the data as XML, TXT, CSV, or whatever, and if necessary generate the PDF with form/fields back at the base camp from the transmitted data, and send it on for further handling.
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>I need the random visitor to be able to download the form and send it back filled, without installing anything - and without developing a fullblown web app, maintaining a web server and generally, with housekeeping as close to zero as possible. The one PDF I have for a sample (Canadian passport application... supplied by someone on the team :) was created in something called "Adobe LiveCycle Designer 8.0", but I'd rather use a sling instead of a cannon. Adobe's bloatware may be just too much for what I need to do; it permanently tries to call home etc etc... but then it looks cheaper than Amyuni, and if it doesn't have these gaps in the documentation, it may just be the thing.
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>So this is exactly the opposite from what I was finding on UT - in all threads I managed to read (even with this dot net way of seeing the whole thread if not longer than 15 messages) the problem to solve was "I am getting a PDF form that I need to return with data - can VFP fill them in automatically?". My problem is "I need to create a PDF form that someone will fill, send back to me, and then I'll need to read it and get the data out from it".