Can I create a fillable form in Pages and then PDF to iWeb?

I'm a teacher and I'd like to be able to upload some PDF documents for my students to download, but would LOVE it if I could make sections of the document available for them to fill out answers, so they could, in turn, save as PDF and send back to me!

Is this possible?

I know how to get the documents into iWeb and that is working fantastic.

But I don't know how to create an area on a page that students can write in. Do I have to maybe do the whole thing in PDF Writer (never used it but have heard that it might have that capability).

THANK YOU!

--MacMeg in Neverland

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.1), Pages 3.0.2

Posted on Feb 14, 2008 8:19 AM

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Apr 19, 2008 1:01 PM in response to treivisone

Yes, the way to do it is to create the form in Pages, print to PDF, open in Acrobat Professional 8, which has a tool to detect form fields and make them fillable. A better solution for getting the data back from the students might be to set up a field as a button to submit only the field contents to you in an email. You can then import that data into a spreadsheet for (potentially) easier grading. See the help in Acrobat for details on getting data back from forms. I have used this for getting conference registration data from forms, and it works great.

Apr 19, 2008 1:47 PM in response to treivisone

treivisone wrote:
But my problem is that i want to export my Pages' page directly to iweb to put it as a podcast. I'm working for an association that wishes to make all the content on itunes...


Ummm.... I know a lot about podcasting, but to my knowledge there is not a way to "embed" a document in a podcast episode. The XML specifications do not do that. However, in the content of an "enhanced" podcast, you can link to a document which can be downloaded while "viewing" the podcast. For an example of that, see my podcast episode:

http://spot.pcc.edu/~dleighto/podcasts/psy201a/episode20080117133153-0800.m4b

If you go to about 29:30 in the podcast, and have opened the artwork/video viewer, you will see a link at the bottom of the viewer pane to download the file. That file, however, is stored separately from the podcast episode. In iWeb, you would set that file up on a downloads page. Then in the podcast episode, you specify the path to access the file. When the user clicks on the link in the viewer, it downloads the file.

Is that what you want to do?

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