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| More and more businesses are streamlining their workflows by converting paper documents to digital documents. But when it comes to your company's forms, not just any electronic forms solution will do. You need a solution that will retain the exact look and feel of your paper forms and contracts while enabling users to save forms on their hard drives, fill them in anytime, and approve them with e-signatures. With an eForms solution built around Adobe Acrobat 5.0 and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), you can easily move paper-based processes to the Web and accelerate approval cycles. Now your organization can expedite forms submission and cut the costs associated with managing paper at the same time. |
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Key benefits |
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Create electronic forms that anyone, including people with vision impairments, can read across a broad range of hardware and software. |
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Minimize retraining and comply with legislative requirements by creating Acrobat eForms that look exactly the same as the paper originals. |
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Enhance and simplify forms processing with automatic calculations and data validation, electronic signatures, and database integration. |
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Implement your forms solution in phases as your budget and infrastructure allow. |
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Technical implementation |
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Online technical training |
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eForms Web Seminars
View archived technical seminars on topics such as eForms and Database Integration, Enhancing Acrobat 5.0 eForms with JavaScript, and much more. |
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Workgroup deployment scenario (PDF: 712K)
In this scenario, a fictitious company called Juggler Toys will be used to illustrate how companies can greatly benefit from using electronic forms to gather and process data. The Juggler Toys examples describe real-world business challenges and ways companies can solve them with an Adobe Acrobat eForms workgroup solution. |
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Solution recipe (PDF: 334K)
The eForms solution recipe provides a step-by-step guide for how to develop a typical Adobe PDF form with Acrobat 5.0, and how to incorporate it into an eForms workgroup solution. The recipe provides detailed instructions, screen shots, and code samples to help you understand the key features and underlying technologies you will need to design tailored eForms solutions for your customers.
Support files (ZIP: 341K) |
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System implementation notes (PDF: 106K)
This document provides an overview of the various architectures for Acrobat eForms applications. It also explains the use of HTML vs. FDF or XFDF as the file format for Acrobat eForms applications. |
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Database connectivity sample (PDF: 1.3M)
The quaFDF package provides a set of sample Adobe PDF eForms with out-of-the-box database integration, which can be used to query, update, and add (qua) records in multiple tables in a relational database. It demonstrates how to connect eForms to a database via the Web through the use of FDF instead of ADBC. This package is implemented with ASP and a Microsoft® Access 2000 database. You can modify the sample forms and modules provided in this package to meet your specific needs or use them as examples for how to create the integrated Acrobat eForms you need. |
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Acrobat Database Connectivity (ADBC) plug-in (PDF: 115K)
This plug-in (included with Acrobat 5.0) provides some basic JavaScript properties and methods for connecting to an ODBC-compliant database on Microsoft Windows®-based systems. ADBC enables direct database connectivity without needing a Web server or CGI script. This document describes how to get started using ADBC to connect Acrobat solutions to databases quickly and easily. |
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Success stories |
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Internal Revenue Service (PDF: 137K)
The IRS saves itself and taxpayers millions of dollars by making all tax forms freely accessible on its Web site as PDF files. |
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California Department of General Services (PDF: 126K)
Online forms processing with Adobe Acrobat and Adobe PDF saves this huge state government agency millions of dollars in administrative costs. |
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CCEWeb (PDF: 418K)
International trade transactions are streamlined by replacing mountains of paper forms with automated document processing and authentication. |
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Pacific Life (PDF: 926K)
The financial services provider cuts its fulfillment time for annuities to 24 hours with VALET, a system based on delivery and submission of forms in Adobe PDF. |
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Orange County Planning and Development (PDF: 1.0M)
Southern California county streamlines its building-permit process by using PDF to create forms that can be digitally signed and centrally stored. |
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SOS Printing (PDF: 316K)
Utilization of Adobe PDF forms and XML support in Acrobat 5.0 automates job ticket information and streamlines this Australian prepress and print provider's operation and workflow. |
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Texas National Bank (PDF: 31K)
A community bank cuts costs, speeds loan approvals, and wins customers by posting forms on the Web as Adobe PDF files. |
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Washington Mutual Financial Corporation (PDF: 547K)
This $4 billion consumer finance division employs Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Approval to reduce the cost of creating and delivering loan forms to more than 500 offices while saving four weeks in form creation and delivery time. |
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Adobe Systems Case Study
An in-depth analysis of Adobe Systems' own implementation of Adobe PDF-based electronic forms. |
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