From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/1196 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ecashin@coe.uga.edu (Ed L. Cashin) Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: AW: print user text in fields Date: 11 Nov 1999 10:10:15 -0500 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: References: <0F3313EC125AD311981100105AB3A75D107ADA@N0795.mdf.fvbb.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035392033 30751 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:53:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:53:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: "Haseloff, Lutz" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:1196 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:1196 Haseloff, Lutz writes: > > Hi. I'm now (re)reading the uptodate-1 document. I notice that when > > I type some text into the text fields and then print, the text I > > entered does not show up in the printed version. Is that a Acrobat > > Reader thing or a ConTeXt thing? > > You have to make the fields printable: > \setupfields [][][][option=printable] > > > There are some departments on campus who use HTML forms on the web as > > static forms. They enter text into the HTML fields and then instead > > of submitting the form, they just print it. It's not a very reliable > > way to do things, but they do it. Could the same be done in > > ConTeXt-generated pdf documents? > > YES YOU CAN, i work for several weeks to build such forms > and i can give you some examples for ConTeXt in source form. This is great news, and my little test worked just now. I realize now, upon looking more closely, that there is a lot to learn about form fields in context. I looked for "stelveldenin" and "definieerveld" in the Dutch manual, but I suppose that these features haven't made it into the manual yet, since I didn't see them there. Is uptodate number one the only place to read about fields or am I forgetting/missing another source of documentation? -- --Ed Cashin PGP public key: ecashin@coe.uga.edu http://www.coe.uga.edu/~ecashin/pgp/