Interactive PDF's in Documaker

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We are looking for an product which could be used for both Data Capturing and Form Processing in a real time environment.Does Documaker supports generation of interactive PDF's which can collect data from the user and can change the display of the PDF depending upon the data entered by User.
Thanks in Advance

Hi
Before going down the interactive PDF road, strongly recommend you check your contract to see what you have licensed already. If you have Oracle Documaker or Oracle Documaker Enterprise, or any Documaker-based solution that includes "iDocumaker", the Web-based interactive component for Documaker, then you probably already have what you need and that is a lot more powerful than interactive PDF with Acrobat, plus already integrated with Documaker. If you are not sure, you can contact your rep. If the users that will do the editing are all internal staff, this is really the way to go.
Interactive PDF with the Acrobat free viewer has a lot of limitations because (a) you cannot do much in terms of rich editing, (b) there is no dynamic option, such as shrink and grow sections or text areas or popup tables or dyanamic charts, etc - everything has to be static content with fixed-size variable placeholders for fill in the blank, (c) you can't insert additional content dynamically like adding forms or sections, or dynamic fields that expand within a paragraph as you type, and worst of all, (d) Adobe has "rigged" a digital signature inside the PDF file that only they can produce such that the free viewer for Acrobat looks for it and will not save locally unless the signature is present meaning that the PDF was generated by Adobe's licensed software, and they prohibit vendors from trying to get around their lock and key, you have to buy the stand-alone licensed version of Acrobat if you want to edit the file and save the output locally. It is possible to "post" data over the Web like a good old-fashioned CGI HTML page from the free Acrobat viewer, however, so that's something.
With all that said, Oracle is looking into supporting "interactive" PDF support to the greatest extent possible, in a future version, but has concerns about user reaction to the extreme limitations imposed by Adobe that I mentioned above. It will be a very limited, low-end way of capturing data. It would be interesting to hear your take on Adobe's proprietary stance on dynamic PDF and the free viewer.

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