Hi Tracy,

It sounds like you are using Acrobat Professional to (currently) add the fillable fields to the form, correct? Have you any idea which product is used by ACORD to produce the pdf's that you are using? I am trying to figure out if buying Acrobat Pro 6.0 will allow me to create the forms from scratch (ca. $500) or do I have to buy the new "Acrobat Output Designer" at $1600 to do this. Would you have a contact at ACORD that I could email to ask what they use?

When you say you launch Acrobat, is that through instantiating Acrobat on a form via an ActiveX control (like what I see covered in the Kilofox book Chapter 8) or is this just using RUN to launch the reader and passing a file name as part of the string. If you had a short snippet of code you could paste, that would be great. Oh, and what version of Acrobat are you using?

Thanks bunch,
Albert



>That is what we are already doing. We use insurance forms for all 50 states such as applications, loss notices, endorsements, binders, etc. Adobe handles it all. We store the data in our VFP app and pass it to Adobe Reader by creating an xfdf file which is associated with pdf files. The xfdf file is actually an xml file that matches the fields on the pdf form (fillable pdf forms). We launch Adobe Reader from our VfP app by sending the xfdf file name and the form is launched with all of the fields on the pdf form filled in.
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