Albert, since you are in Canada it may not pertain to you but here in the states you can actually create legal problems using any form however precise that has not been pre-approved by the state department of insurance (or board of insurance depending on the state). We submit the forms to the carrier and to the board and once approved use them. When we purchase the forms from ACORD they are already approved.


>Hi Jim,
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>I *have* done one complex form in VFP for these people so it might be possible - it sort of drove me crazy though doing that one and these ones (about 5 different apps) are literally probably 5 times more complex - working in Delrina FF was easy in comparison and I could get the "micro-positioning" that the client wanted - they wanted the form to appear so exact that the insurace co. would not be able to tell the difference (for legal purposes).
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>It seems Delrina was bought by Jetform which became Accellio which was then bought by Symantec and now somehow Adobe has it (they kept the Jetform and Delrina products going for a while but now they are orphaned in favour of their Adobe products). I am also leaning towards Adobe just because it is becoming such a standard and it's sort of like they used to say about buying IBM - "you'll never get fired for buying IBM" (not that I *always* toe the line :-)
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>>Hi Albert,
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>>Are you sure the forms are STILL too complex for VFP? I only ask because I was able, wayyyy back, to use FormFlow to reproduce almost exactly the standard Ontario Auto Insurance "Application form" and the only real thing that inhibited doing it in VFP was that it was (roughly 8.5" x 17"). Now that VFP supports a larger form area (not sure of exact limitation) it may be possible.
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>>By the way, I think Delrina itself was bought by Symantec. It's possible that their forms business was sold elsewhere.
>>Also, for auto ins. form I mentioned above I could duplicate the layout but could never get FormFlow to 'process' properly.
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>>good luck
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