{"id":46876,"date":"2019-10-23T03:01:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T17:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=46876"},"modified":"2019-10-22T19:51:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T09:51:51","slug":"towards-the-paperless-office-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/towards-the-paperless-office-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Towards the Paperless Office Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/LeaveApplication.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Towards the Paperless Office Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/LeaveApplication.jpg\" title=\"Towards the Paperless Office Primer Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Towards the Paperless Office Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you work in an office, how paperless is it?  Do you want to start with some form filling ideas?  How about a Leave Application form?<\/p>\n<p>Interested?   We&#8217;re hoping so.   A big first step, we feel, is to think &#8220;PDF format&#8221; with all this work, because &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PDF is the online world&#8217;s &#8220;printout&#8221; format &#8230; and probably it&#8217;s most popular &#8230; and so a lot of application Print (As &#8230;) options will mention PDF &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>PDF loses its history (as a printout does too), called <a target=_blank title='Document fidelity posts' href='https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/document-fidelity'>&#8220;Document Fidelity&#8221;<\/a>, which can help separate your PDF file from the chance to track its history of creation &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>PDF has many choices as far as applications go, regarding functionality reading from and writing to (the latter, less so (but see below))<\/li>\n<li>PDF formats can create online textboxes to receive interactive user data entries (but more on that into the future, and see <a href='#dyy' title='Did you know?'>Did you know?<\/a> section below)<\/li>\n<li>PDF applications can handle signatures (but more on that into the future)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So let&#8217;s first create a Leave Application PDF form file.  We need a PDF writer and though a few image editors such as <a target=_blank title='Gimp' href='https:\/\/gimp.org'>GIMP<\/a> (non-vector) and <a target=_blank title='Inkscape' href='https:\/\/inkscape.org'>Inkscape<\/a> (vector) can export to PDF, and Adobe has a good PDF writer product, and macOS out of the box <a target=_blank title='PreView (on a Mac) information from Apple' href='https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT201740'>Preview<\/a> can assemble and annotate images into PDF files, we&#8217;re trying a Google Chrome (web browser) extension called <a target=_blank title='PDFfiller' href='https:\/\/www.pdffiller.com'>PDFfiller<\/a>.   We thought it was great.  As per many apps it is free for 30 days, and then a plan can be arranged.  See our <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/LeaveApplication.pdf\">stream of consciousness<\/a> look of this, and see and\/or click below to access the end result PDF Leave Application form.<\/p>\n<p><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/RJMProgramming_LeaveApplication.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/RJMProgramming_LeaveApplication.jpg\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That form contains no form fields, nor digital signature fields, and so we meet back here tomorrow, for more!<\/p>\n<p id=dyy><b><i>Did you know?<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>In a macOS (out of the box) woooooorrrrrllldd, the application, Preview, can take PDFs with no form fields and achieve what the aim of &#8220;Towards the Paperless Office&#8221; blog posting thread is getting at, as per its &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Form Fields: Tools -&gt; Annotate -&gt; Text &#8230; click to place and type to annotate and adjust as necessary<\/li>\n<li>Digital Signatures: View -&gt; Show Markup Toolbar &#8230; 3rd &#8220;Sketch&#8221; icon (but more on the control of this, later)\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; but it&#8217;s just that learning about PDF form fields is a good bit of functionality to know about &#8230; ma\u00f1ana &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d46876' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d46876\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/pdf\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d46876' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you work in an office, how paperless is it? Do you want to start with some form filling ideas? How about a Leave Application form? Interested? We&#8217;re hoping so. 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