>>Does anybody know if there is any way to output a report to PDF that has form fields (e.g. checkboxes, text entry boxes). Currently use XFRX and have noticed there is a way to add various items like hyperlinks, and custom output fields for text and graphics, but I don't see any way to add form fields (i.e. items that could be updated or filled in by user from the PDF viewer).
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>I was investigating this (not with xFrx, but just about any other product out there) a couple of years ago, and with very bad results.
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>It used to work, once upon a time. I remember having filled one PDF form and printed it with my values, even saving it with these values. Then next year the same form came unfillable, I had to print it and fill by hand.
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>Basically, I found that nobody does this. I googled for fillable PDF forms dozen different ways, and even those who would benefit most from them tell you to print, fill, send back (regular mail or scan/email).
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>The tools available out there generally allow you to create fields in a format compatible with Adobe reader until version 8 or so, and then these don't work anymore, don't display in a reader or something. Even what little I was able to produce was sketchy, hard to control, I was never sure whether it would work and whether it would display in each version of a reader - and if it would, would the entered values be printed and saved. Printing worked mostly, saving practically never.
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>Then there was Adobe 9 or 10, which changed the standard, and cost some outrageous sum, few thousand bucks, to have the ability to include forms in their new PDF standard (differs from old in format of these fields, mostly). Even if the cost was justifiable, the unsurmountable hurdle is that these fields would be visible only in the same or newer version of the reader - a showstopper for all those places where they have hundreds of boxes where nothing gets updated unless there's a big administrative process first. Some of those machines are already several versions behind.
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>So the whole project was abandoned.

Oh great... Yet another file format in which you've got to worry about compatibility problems between different versions of the software.... (sigh) Thanks for your input on this.