From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 13 19:22:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A76B37B401 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 19:22:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts5.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4328F43FA3 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 19:22:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from gabby.gsicomp.on.ca ([65.95.176.5]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.netESMTP <20030414022229.RRYT1594.tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@gabby.gsicomp.on.ca>; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 22:22:29 -0400 Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by gabby.gsicomp.on.ca (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h3E2JRiG098699; Sun, 13 Apr 2003 22:19:27 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <001701c3022c$a882b220$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Jd" , References: <3E99B722.8040805@jackdan.net> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 22:22:12 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Subject: Re: 2 questions... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 02:22:31 -0000 > I know this is a freeBSD mailing list, but I didn't know where else to > ask this question. I've recently switch to FreeBSD 4.8 (great OS btw), > and I've been so pleasantly surprised that i'm now planning to switch > over my dad's firm over to freeBSD. There computers/software are > rapidly getting old and obselete, and microsoft's price/security > is...well expensive/crap. I can pretty much convert everything they do > there to freeBSD without a problem. > > There is only 1 thing I'm not sure how to do, and this is my question. > The employees have to fill out forms for the clients. Now these forms, > when printed, must look exactly like predefined government forms (yes > it's all legal). Also, since it's the government, and they need to > justify a few salaries, they change the forms every now and then. I was > wondering if anyone knows of a project that already exists to > create/fillout forms like this, or if not an existing project, maybe > just a library, a module, a something where I could start reading. > Basically I want to create legal like forms to fill out for clients. It sounds like you want Adobe Acrobat (the full product, not the reader.) With this you can create fillable-form-PDF files, which anyone with Acrobat Reader can fill out and print, making them look nice and pretty :) Adobe's products are available for Windows and Linux (but not FreeBSD). However, you might be able to get the Linux version to work on FreeBSD via the Linux emulator. Alternatively, you could keep one Windows machine around the office to do this kind of work on. -- Matt Emmerton