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Adobe™ Acrobat™ Interactivity
Beginning with version 2015, Pathagoras has substantial Adobe™ Acrobat™ interactivity.
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Pathagoras can complete Adobe Acrobat forms as if they were Word documents. For example:
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probate forms
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court filing cover sheets
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tax forms
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uncontested pleadings/motions
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reports of adoptions
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immigration forms
These forms are regularly published by federal, state and local courts in Adobe Acrobat. More forms are coming daily. Many of these forms have been made mandatory. You may not have a choice about having to use them, but you now have a choice about how you can complete them
2.
With Pathagoras, you can complete Acrobat PDFs as easily as you can Word based documents. (PDFs will never replace specially crafted contracts, agreements, complex pleadings, wills & trusts, etc. So there will always be a need for true document assembly. But now one program – Pathagoras -- can handle the full range of forms used in a typical office, from the ‘fill-in the blank’ Acrobat PDFs to the most lengthy and complex of documents.
3.
You can work with Acrobat PDFs in several ways, summarize below and explained with more detail in the following pages:
a.
Pathagoras can complete PDFs into which you have inserted [bracketed plain-text variables]. Click here to read more.
b.
Pathagoras can scan an Acrobat form for either [bracketed variables] or the 'raw' field names of an Acrobat form. It can those names as variables onto Pathagoras’ familiar Instant Database form. Read more here.
c.
Pathagoras lets you assemble individual PDFs into a single PDF. This feature is similar to the document assembly performed by Pathagoras in its standard Word operations. Read about PDF assembly here.
d.
Pathagoras can scrape the usable data from completed Acrobat PDFs and pull the data directly into your Pathagoras system. Read more here.
Call the Acrobat module from Pathagoras Features | Authoring Editing Tools. Click the 'Adobe' element as shown below
If you anticipate using this feature a lot, you should place the Acrobat 'button' onto your Quick Access Toolbar (the 'QAT'). Just right click on the 'Complete Adobe forms' and select the QAT option. That will provide instant access to this feature, and save you many clicks.
Please note:
1. The interconnectedness discussed above is with Pathagoras and the Acrobat™ brand. At present Pathagoras cannot complete other PDFs. This may soon change, but for now be aware of the restriction.
2. There are two basic types of PDFs:
a. Letters and other documents that have been coverted from a native format such as Word into a PDF document. That converted document is essentially an image of the original, and is more difficult to modify.
b. PDF forms with 'fields' that are intended to be completed by the end user. The fields typically can be highlighted by clicking the 'Highlight Form Fields.. Fillling and scraping can be done only with PDFs of this type. Information in a type 'a' letter is not scrapable because all of the text is essentially the same.
If you anticipate using this feature a lot, you should place the Acrobat 'button' onto your Quick Access Toolbar (the 'QAT'). Just right click on the 'Complete Adobe forms' and select the QAT option. That will provide instant access to this feature, and save you many clicks.