[Tugindia] xml forms

[CV Radhakrishnan]

On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 08:29 -0700, Dr Vaibhav Banait wrote:

>   I am not willing to create an xml form, but a form in pdf /lyx/latex 
>  format which can be filled by user and if possible, data can be 
>  extracted to database (Excel for ex ).    

But your original post says:

> The form should be structered as xml and i should be able to export
> data to microsoft excel.


> Pdf with latex will have
>  advantages, if i can pre- decide the formatting of text blocks, i save
>  my time while printing.   This can be done with adobe
>  designer/writer/microsoft infopath. but both are not free. 

You can make use of hyperref.sty which provides form creation/formating
facility using LaTeX or pdfLaTeX.

Radhakrishnan




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