Re: Quick question about AFP-to-PDF

What is your problem with online form submission? I envision a
page with 2 tabs - 1 tab providing an interactive HTML form and
another for viewing the PDF equivalent of it.

On 12/23/16, 10:12 AM, Roberto José Etcheverry Romero wrote:

Because it's not a problem of filling information NOW, it's making
the report with fillable fields for LATER. Example: VISA application
pdf for China. You download the pdf and fill the form. Then print
and present at embassy, In this case he may want to print a report
and leave some information to be completed later by whoever uses the
report. If he doesn't have the info right now, he has to leave the
space for it, but if he leaves a specially crafted field the user can
complete from the pdf viewer directly.

Exactly. It isn't a visa application, any more than it's an IRS form, but it is something very much analogous, something for which online submission for automated processing is completely irrelevant. Setting up an interactive HTML form would essentially have the same result as simply changing the underlying data in the application that's generating the PDF in the first place, only with lots of added complexity.

The idea of making the report a fillable form is to allow the PDF to be circulated among various interested parties, who would then be able to add content (and/or modify existing content) while it's still a PDF, rather than printing out a paper document.

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JHHL