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Macintosh Form Fill-out software (other than True Forms)

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From: Jonathan David Abbey
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 1991 18:50
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Greetings.  We are looking to find a good Macintosh form fill-in package.
We went out and evaluated a number of products after we were told that
Claris was de-emphasizing SmartForms, which we had been considering purchasing
for wide spread use in our facility.  We eventually settled on True Forms
by Adobe, which as of version 2.1 seems really ideal for our needs, and after
several months of discussion and so on, we were all set to pay $3000 for a 
multiple-user license, and we'd standardize on the software throughout our
facility.

Then Adobe called up and let us know that the forms market wasn't turning
out as well as they thought it would when they licensed the software, and
they were dropping development on it, and were not willing to guarantee that
the software would work on System 7.0.  <Argh>

So the question I put to the net is this:  Are there really any alternative
packages out there?  The True Forms software is really ideal, and we thought
we couldn't hope to find a more stable company, but.. 

All other packages I've seen don't really have such great fill out software,
which is our main use for the package.  Any recommendations/commisserations
would be welcome.



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From: jonabbey@cs.utexas.edu (Jonathan David Abbey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Macintosh Form Fill-out software (other than True Forms)
Summary: Looking for the perfect, supported forms software.
Keywords: form, forms
Message-ID: <215@atacama.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 25 Feb 91 18:50:27 GMT
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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