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RE[6]: PDF reader ?
by phoenix on Tue 5th Apr 2011 02:49 UTC in reply to "RE[5]: PDF reader ?"
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The worst PDF I've ever come across is an information update request form for the provincial ministry of education. It's a PDF, with a bunch of Forms fields you edit. Then you click a button to submit the PDF ... which runs a bunch of script to create ... a PDF, that is attached to an e-mail, and sent via MAPI (which means it won't work on non-Windows systems, or even Windows systems without MS Office installed).

And it's just a handful of text fields!!

This is the "new and improved, network-enabled" version of this form. Previously, you had to call the ministry, they'd fax you a form, you fill it out, and fax it back.

It's things like this that just scream to be made into a web-based form, with a database behind it.

It's things like this that give PDF a bad name. ;)

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