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Hate PDF Forms? Check Out My No Code Solution

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Re: Hate PDF Forms? Check Out My No Code Solution

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Post by pheasantquiff »

julius wrote: post #5
pheasantquiff wrote: post #2

Hate PDF Forms? Check out my No Code solution! Create a form using text markup. Get an URL pointing to the form and mail it to your customers. I recently received a PDF form (created by M$ Word). I use Linux and managed to open it with Libreoffice (Draw!). The text entry boxes were misaligned or just missing. Digits each had a separate text field. Tiresome... By the time I had re-exported it to PDF with the fields fi…

> or view the form here https://sayitwith.ink/form/d59de7609590d1da1cd24fb5ddd6a775 bad form id

Thanks. I did a re-release and deleted the database of forms. Link is now updated.

Re: Hate PDF Forms? Check Out My No Code Solution

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Post by pheasantquiff »

GauntletWizard wrote: post #9
murkle wrote: post #7

Why not go one step further and add a "Save" button which creates (& downloads) a PDF in the browser?

Or even just a button that brings up the Print window so that the browser can save as PDF

Yes. Certainly interesting ideas I will look into.

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Post by pheasantquiff »

ziddoap wrote: post #6
ss48 wrote: post #4

Bug: Get the following error unless I change the text in text box. server internal error (identical form exists?)

Clicking the "view the form here" link is also bugging out, says "bad form id"

Thanks. I did a re-release and deleted the database of forms. Link is now updated.

(creating the identical form twice is not allowed; not really a problem in real world scenarios)

Re: Hate PDF Forms? Check Out My No Code Solution

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Post by ziddoap »

pheasantquiff wrote: post #13
ziddoap wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Clicking the "view the form here" link is also bugging out, says "bad form id"

Thanks. I did a re-release and deleted the database of forms. Link is now updated. (creating the identical form twice is not allowed; not really a problem in real world scenarios)

One real-world scenario where it seems to be a problem is for you to show off your work :)

Clicking "create form" (to see the example you provided) returns the identical form error again. I have to modify it to see how it works, rather than using the example you provided.

Not a show stopper at all, but not intuitive for an example website as there is no indication that I need to modify your example form before being able to see the example of what is produced.

Very cool though!

Re: Hate PDF Forms? Check Out My No Code Solution

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Post by tdeck »

I like the concept a lot. A couple of suggestions you might consider:

1. Grab a lightweight CSS framework like Milligram (there are a bunch of them) and add it so the forms will be styled in a more modern way.

2. Test on mobile. For me the layout of the current forms shows up wrong, it doesn't take the full screen width and labels in the example form run over other elements.

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