Curiouser and Curiouser! on adobe-acrobat http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic adobe-acrobat Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb Interactive soap Thu, 21 Aug 2003 19:53:58 +0100 <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <P><A href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2003/08/21.html#a778">Acrobat and InfoPath</A>. Look at Adobe's <A href="http://www.adobe.com/products/server/readerextensions/pdfs/incometaxform.pdf">interactive income tax form</A>. That document is licensed, by the Document Server for Reader Extensions, to unlock the form fill-in and digital signature capabilities of the reader. Filling in a form and then signing it digitally is an eye-opening experience. It's more interesting now that the form's data is schema-controlled and, Myers adds, can flow in and out by way of WSDL-defined SOAP transactions. The only missing InfoPath ingredient is a forms designer that nonprogrammers can use to map between schema elements and form fields. That's just what the recently announced Adobe Forms Designer intends to be. I like where Adobe is going. The familiarity of paper forms matters to lots of people. And unless Microsoft's strategy changes radically, those folks are far likelier to have an Adobe reader than an InfoPath client. [Full story at <A href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/08/15/32OPstrategic_1.html">InfoWorld.com</A>] <B>...</B> [<A href="http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/">Jon's Radio</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>Acrobat really do have it to lose.&nbsp; I do like the idea of forms being able to make interactive SOAP calls.</P> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00001573.html Forms and XML Tue, 23 Sep 2003 20:26:47 +0100 One of the projects I am involved with at the moment involves a large scale application of forms, XML and document management.&nbsp; We're looking at using Adobe Forms as the front-end technology and hoping to have them produce XML (although it remains to be seen if this will be possible in the pilot timescale).<br> <br> Today I started playing with <a href="http://www.w3.org/XML/Schema">XML Schema</a> in anger.&nbsp; Since I don't want to edit by hand I am testing tools for both schema and general document editing.&nbsp; Currently I am evaluating <a href="http://www.tibco.com/solutions/products/extensibility/turbo_xml.jsp">Tibco's Turbo XML</a>.&nbsp; It seems quite capable if a little clunky.&nbsp; Does anyone have any opinions?&nbsp; Or recomendations of tools they like?<br> <br> Even though the client has OpenText Livelink we're taking a good look at XML storage.&nbsp; In particular <a href="http://www.sleepycat.com/products/xml.shtml">Sleepy Cat's DB XML</a> seems to have a lot going for it.&nbsp; Native XML storage and query has a lot of attractive possibilities.<br> <br> More later.<br> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00001641.html