Interactive Workbook Question

I need to create an interactive workbook. The workbook should have areas that participants fill out and can later print as well as submit to a database for grading. Is this possible with InDesign or would another program work better? As an added feature, is it possible to create drag and drop animations and have the results reported to the database.
Thank you for your help,
Donna

You can create forms with InDesign CS6 upwards. You create the form in InDesign and finish them in Acrobat Pro.
You can export the form from Acrobat in a way that's enabled so the end user can complete the fields, store the data, print and email it to others. You can create fields that have text boxes, radio buttons, tick boxes and so on, but you can't create fields that the end user can use to insert their own images.
Lynda.com have some useful tutorials on how to do this, for example:
http://www.lynda.com/InDesign-tutorials/Creating-PDF-Forms-InDesign/126118-2.html
Derek

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