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Hi everybody
This is my problem: I need too print out text on a paper form at corresponding positions using an inkjet printer instead of using an old tipewriter or filling it by hand. The only approach I can think of is to scan the paper form and use it as the background image of the form and put text boxes at corresponding positions. I have tried it is difficult to center the text boxes over the real paper form. Does anybody have any other ideas? Please let me know. Thank You for your help |
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On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:55:38 -0700 (PDT), CixiSan wrote:
Hi everybody This is my problem: I need too print out text on a paper form at corresponding positions using an inkjet printer instead of using an old tipewriter or filling it by hand. The only approach I can think of is to scan the paper form and use it as the background image of the form and put text boxes at corresponding positions. I have tried it is difficult to center the text boxes over the real paper form. Does anybody have any other ideas? Please let me know. Thank You for your help That's about the best you can do with Word or any other general-purpose software that I know of. There is a product intended for exactly that application, OmniForm from Nuance Communications (http://www.nuance.com/omniform/). It's worth the $100 they charge if you have a lot of forms to process. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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On Mar 31, 5:18 am, Jay Freedman wrote:
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:55:38 -0700 (PDT), CixiSan wrote: Hi everybody This is my problem: I need too print out text on a paper form at corresponding positions using an inkjet printer instead of using an old tipewriter or filling it by hand. The only approach I can think of is to scan the paper form and use it as the background image of the form and put text boxes at corresponding positions. I have tried it is difficult to center the text boxes over the real paper form. Does anybody have any other ideas? Please let me know. Thank You for your help That's about the best you can do with Word or any other general-purpose software that I know of. Sorry what do you mean? Does it mean I can do it using word? If so how? There is a product intended for exactly that application, OmniForm from Nuance Communications (http://www.nuance.com/omniform/). It's worth the $100 they charge if you have a lot of forms to process. Thank You.. I'm giving a look at it. But it does not say it can print exactly on the form. I know I'm not so expert in this kinda things because of that I'm asking help. I'm afraid to buy a not useful thing for me. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ:http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Thank You Regards Cixisan |
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"CixiSan" wrote in message
... On Mar 31, 5:18 am, Jay Freedman wrote: There is a product intended for exactly that application, OmniForm from Nuance Communications (http://www.nuance.com/omniform/). It's worth the $100 they charge if you have a lot of forms to process. Thank You.. I'm giving a look at it. But it does not say it can print exactly on the form. I know I'm not so expert in this kinda things because of that I'm asking help. I'm afraid to buy a not useful thing for me. I've undertaken this type of task numerous times and the success rate depends on the pre-printed forms being printed by the printing company *exactly* the same every single time. I've also found that's next to impossible. Each time you receive a new batch of forms they are off slightly. It only takes a slight change, such as a bit of a larger margin, to throw everything out of whack. The only successful method I've found is to recreate the entire form and print it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs |
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On Apr 1, 12:58 am, "Beth Melton" wrote:
"CixiSan" wrote in message ... On Mar 31, 5:18 am, Jay Freedman wrote: There is a product intended for exactly that application, OmniForm from Nuance Communications (http://www.nuance.com/omniform/). It's worth the $100 they charge if you have a lot of forms to process. Thank You.. I'm giving a look at it. But it does not say it can print exactly on the form. I know I'm not so expert in this kinda things because of that I'm asking help. I'm afraid to buy a not useful thing for me. I've undertaken this type of task numerous times and the success rate depends on the pre-printed forms being printed by the printing company *exactly* the same every single time. I've also found that's next to impossible. Each time you receive a new batch of forms they are off slightly. It only takes a slight change, such as a bit of a larger margin, to throw everything out of whack. The only successful method I've found is to recreate the entire form and print it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVPhttps://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Beth how do you undertake this task? That's my primary concern. Do you mean print it "completely" or just scan and recreate the form? I can't print it since it is made by special ink to avoid fake forms or forged forms. Thank You Regards |
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"CixiSan" wrote in message
... On Apr 1, 12:58 am, "Beth Melton" wrote: I've undertaken this type of task numerous times and the success rate depends on the pre-printed forms being printed by the printing company *exactly* the same every single time. I've also found that's next to impossible. Each time you receive a new batch of forms they are off slightly. It only takes a slight change, such as a bit of a larger margin, to throw everything out of whack. The only successful method I've found is to recreate the entire form and print it. Beth how do you undertake this task? That's my primary concern. Do you mean print it "completely" or just scan and recreate the form? I can't print it since it is made by special ink to avoid fake forms or forged forms. I recreate the form in Word so the entire printout is identical to the preprinted form. IOW, the preprinted forms are no longer used. Scanning, btw, doesn't work -- I start with a blank page. Those that are intricate are very time consuming to perfect but hey, that's why they are paying me. :-) If your forms use a special ink then my method won't work. If you do decide to tackle this using text boxes (I also use borderless Word tables) then it does take a lot of trial and error and it doesn't matter what program you use to do it. Getting the data to line up perfectly on the preprinted form takes time. I have a client who must use their preprinted forms and every time they recieve a new batch I need to go in and make adjustments so it prints correctly -- it's a couple hours of work each time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs |
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On Apr 1, 6:13 pm, "Beth Melton" wrote:
"CixiSan" wrote in message ... On Apr 1, 12:58 am, "Beth Melton" wrote: I've undertaken this type of task numerous times and the success rate depends on the pre-printed forms being printed by the printing company *exactly* the same every single time. I've also found that's next to impossible. Each time you receive a new batch of forms they are off slightly. It only takes a slight change, such as a bit of a larger margin, to throw everything out of whack. The only successful method I've found is to recreate the entire form and print it. Beth how do you undertake this task? That's my primary concern. Do you mean print it "completely" or just scan and recreate the form? I can't print it since it is made by special ink to avoid fake forms or forged forms. I recreate the form in Word so the entire printout is identical to the preprinted form. IOW, the preprinted forms are no longer used. Scanning, btw, doesn't work -- I start with a blank page. Those that are intricate are very time consuming to perfect but hey, that's why they are paying me. :-) If your forms use a special ink then my method won't work. If you do decide to tackle this using text boxes (I also use borderless Word tables) then it does take a lot of trial and error and it doesn't matter what program you use to do it. Getting the data to line up perfectly on the preprinted form takes time. I have a client who must use their preprinted forms and every time they recieve a new batch I need to go in and make adjustments so it prints correctly -- it's a couple hours of work each time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVPhttps://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Thank You Beth. I'll try then to use word and guess the exact position. The form are security related forms. I can't do otherwise. I can do as much trials as i want since I have plenty of forms.  I'll let you know. |
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"CixiSan" wrote in message
... On Apr 1, 6:13 pm, "Beth Melton" wrote: If your forms use a special ink then my method won't work. If you do decide to tackle this using text boxes (I also use borderless Word tables) then it does take a lot of trial and error and it doesn't matter what program you use to do it. Getting the data to line up perfectly on the preprinted form takes time. I have a client who must use their preprinted forms and every time they recieve a new batch I need to go in and make adjustments so it prints correctly -- it's a couple hours of work each time. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVPhttps://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Thank You Beth. I'll try then to use word and guess the exact position. The form are security related forms. I can't do otherwise. I can do as much trials as i want since I have plenty of forms. I'll let you know. Good luck!! Another note to make is if you find yourself making the same changes over and over again then check your pre-printed forms. It's likely they aren't printed the same. What I found works best is to hold two forms placed together up to the light and verify the alignment. Do the same each time you print to make sure you are actually working with identical forms. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs |
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