Adobe Form Client

Web enable your internal business processes

Adobe® Form Client software enables companies to replace inefficient, paper-based forms processes with intelligent, accessible, and secure electronic data capture solutions to improve organizational agility and productivity.

• Requires zero administration
  
  
• Provides a framework based on open, vendor-independent XML standards
  
  
• Incorporates digital signatures
  
  
• Integrates easily with core business applications
  

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Product overview

Adobe® Form Client is an intelligent data capture product that provides unprecedented application interoperability, zero administration capabilities, process and routing security, integration capabilities, and application functionality. Form Client lets you initiate commercial and business processes for large-scale Web and Internet processing and enables you to take full advantage of thin-client, Web-based architectures and component-based distributed computing.

How it works

Form Client consists of two main components: the form end-user components and the filler. The end-user components enable the integration of Form Client electronic forms into a wide variety of environments, such as the Web, Microsoft Outlook, and Microsoft Office applications. The filler is a standalone application that presents Form Client forms to the end user. Its simple user interface (UI) allows the end user to save, retrieve, mail, and print the document. Adobe Form Designer is used to create and test Form Client forms. The customized UI enables designers to create forms for a paper environment — allowing for the specification of paper size and orientation — as well as for the Web.

Organizations that want to secure transactions involving confidential or sensitive information can also use Form Client with digital signature integration — no plug-in or download is required to sign the forms.

Accessibility

The Form Client intelligent data capture solution with Verbal-eyes™ technology provides visually impaired users with the ability to fill out electronic forms without relying on other people. If the Verbal-eyes control detects that a user is running a screen reader, it will dynamically determine what is required to begin speaking to the user. Form Client with Verbal-eyes technology complies with Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act as amended in 1998.

Form Client highlights

Provides a framework based on open, vendor-independent XML standards

Requires zero administration

Supports digital and digitized signatures from various signature partners, as well as signature verification

Offers database connectivity and binding

Offers e-mail routing support and scalability

Integrates with core business applications and processes

Offers faster, open access to forms for filling and processing

Supports a wide range of hosting environments such as Web browsers, network computers, and PBX, offering end users increased accessibility and ease of use

Integrates with Adobe Document Server and Adobe Workflow Server

Features a common, independent user interface

Offers the option to work online or offline

Features the familiar Microsoft Office user interface, minimizing the need for training and enabling faster form creation

Provides the capability to convert forms developed with previous versions of FormFlow®, including multiple forms conversion

Features a run-time spell checker to enable end users to check spelling before printing or submitting a form

Features compatibility with Microsoft® Windows® 98/2000, Windows XP, or Windows NT®

Includes an enhanced script editor to make it easier for form designers to work with a series of events

Offers end-user components in the following languages: German, Swedish, French, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese

System requirements

Windows Intel® Pentium® 166MHz or faster processor
Microsoft® Windows® 95b/98/2000, Windows NT® 4.0, or Windows XP
32MB of RAM
26MB of available hard-disk space
Web: Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later, Netscape Navigator 4.7x
Server component software: Web server, 8MB of hard-disk space