Form Fillers?

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KeithS

Any good freeware progs for filling in forms, e.g. scan form, edit
required fields, print, or save as .jpg or bitmap (or other common
extension)?
I've tried FillOutAForm, but it's unable to save except in .dta form, so
it's no good for sending to 3rd parties.
TIA
KeithS
 
A work around is to use Word or WordPerfect and insert your scanned
document as a non-washout watermark. You might have to increase the
darkness of the picture because some washout still occurs. Anyway in
Word:

1. Choose Format -> Background -> Printed Watermark.

2. Select "Picture Watermark." Browse to you scanned picture.

3. Change the Scale until the picture fits right on your page.

4. Choose Insert -> Text box for each field.

5. Right click the shaded border of each text box and choose "Format
Text box."

6. Choose the "Color and Lines" Tab. For Fill, choose "No Fill." For
the color of the lines, choose "No Line."

If anybody's interested I can produce the steps for WordPerfect too.

Finally, the above can be done using PowerPoint or most Presentation
programs. Essentially you change the PowerPoint Slide size to 8.5 X 11
and then put the scanned image on a Master Slide. Again you fill the
form with text boxes. With PowerPoint you can have multiple master
slides, so this works well for multiple page forms. I have written out
all the steps here:

http://www.socrtwo.info/pdf_form.htm

The advantage of PowerPoint also is to be able to export results as
image files like jpg.
 
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