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What is VisiForm?
VisiForm is a full-featured electronic form software solution for
creating and using electronic forms. VisiForm provides layers, resources,
drop down lists, formatted fields, image control, 17 drawing tools,
26 distribute and align tools, scripting support with integral code
editor, integral units of measure, field formatting, a built in database for
multiple record forms, an advanced property sheet for complete access to
all of the form object properties, and much more.
VisiForm creates the most powerful electronic forms with the smallest file
size, making them easy to distribute to customers and constituents over
networks. Form templates created with VisiForm Developer Standard Edition
can be optionally compiled with the included POP!Form
compiler. POP!Forms are small, self-contained, self-executing files
that contain all of the form's functionality and data. POP!Forms do
not require the installation of any software, making them easy to distribute
across the Internet or corporate intranet. Users can run the form and fill
in the data simply by launching a single file. POP!Forms can also send
their data back to a pre-defined email address at the click of a button, for
data collection and processing.
By providing the most powerful core product and
intuitive form design interface, VisiForm eliminates tedious hours of time spent
cleaning up forms that are created by scanning. If you have tried products that create forms
automatically by scanning, you now know that they can only be used
on very simple forms. Complex forms require so much clean up and
editing that it is much faster to create the form from scratch in
a powerful and intuitive form editing environment like VisiForm. In VisiForm,
you can scan a form and use it as a background reference image as you
layout your form. Simply overlay the form controls on the
scanned image. It's fast, the results will be precise, and you won't have to spend hours trying
to clean up a complicated form.
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What different versions of VisiForm are there?
VisiForm Standard Edition includes two software products, VisiForm Designer, and VisiForm
Filler. VisiForm Designer is a professional electronic form design
and programming tool, where you can design sophisticated form templates, including
embedded fonts, images, and scripting. Templates that are created
in VisiForm Designer are used by VisiForm Filler to create the actual forms that are
filled in by end users. The template is like a cookie cutter, and forms
that are created in VisiForm Filler are like the cookies. One form
template can be used in VisiForm Filler to create many form files.
Normally in a company, a small number of form designers will create and test the form templates
for the whole company using VisiForm Designer. Everyone else will have
VisiForm Filler installed on their desktop and laptop computers so they
can use the templates that were created by the designers.
When You purchase VisiForm Standard Edition, you get software and licenses
for both Designer and Filler. You can also purchase copies of VisiForm
Filler separately.
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What is a POP!Form?
POP!Forms are small, self-contained, self-executing files that contain all of
the form's functionality and data. POP!Forms do not require the
installation of any software, making them easy to distribute across the Internet
or corporate intranet. POP!Forms can also send their data back to an email
address at the click of a button, for collection and processing.
POP!Forms are compiled forms so you cannot open them in VisiForm Designer
and make alterations. Neither can your customers! (That's the whole
point!) POP!Forms can contain scripting, embedded fonts, graphics, and all
of the features available in VisiForm Designer.
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Do I need a software license to use a POP!Form?
NO! POP!Forms are compiled forms that can be
opened with the click of a mouse. You can make form templates in VisiForm Designer, compile
them into POP!Forms, and freely distribute them to friends, club
members, business associates, constituents, and everyone else you can think
of without having to worry about licenses.
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Can I create POP!Forms and sell them to others?
If you want to create and sell POP!Forms to customers, you must first
obtain a license to do so from Primary Software. Please contact us
for details.
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How can I have a POP!Form email data back to me?
After you have designed and tested your form in VisiForm Designer, click
on File, Create POP!Form in the menu bar. Click the Return tab, and
check the "Enable e-mail return" box. Now add the email address
you want the data returned to, provide a subject line (usually
the name of the form), and select the text you want to
appear on the button that the user will click to return the
form. You can also add your own custom button text. The button
will be added to the POP!Form toolbar. Click Ok.
Now when the POP!Form is run, clicking the
Submit button will automatically email the compiled data back to you. Simply save
the form attachment to disk and open to view the submitted data.
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Can VisiForm create an electronic form by scanning an existing paper form?
No, VisiForm does not "automatically create an electronic form from a scanned
paper form." But in our experience, neither can anyone else.
If you have tried products that create forms automatically by scanning,
you know that they can only be used on very simple forms. Complex
forms require so much clean-up and editing that it is much faster to create
the form from scratch in a powerful and intuitive form editing environment like
VisiForm.
In VisiForm, you CAN scan a form and use it as a background reference image
as you lay out your form. Simply overlay the form controls on the scanned
image. It's fast, the results will be precise, and you won't
have to spend hours trying to clean up a complicated form that only got
partially converted from a scanned image.
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