You know, as I've been watching this thread drift further and further
away from the basic issue of allowing a report PDF generated out of an
RPG program to be circulated among interested parties, and allowing them
to (at least) add to it, I failed to consider that there might be
something built into Reader that both I and the customer were ignoring.
It seems that while one would need either the full Acrobat (or some
other PDF editing tool) to change EXISTING values, Reader 11 has a "Fill
& Sign" tab on the toolbar, that allows one to ADD new text to a PDF,
which can then be saved, and it seems to work quite well with a sample
of the previous generation of this customer's RPG-to-AFP-to-PDF reports.
So it doesn't have to be a "form" after all; any static PDF will
evidently do.
And that is probably good enough for the desired project.
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