The 2006 issue of the award winning (thanks to PDFfolio) IRS Tax Products CD-ROM is now out. It can be ordered from NITS, and is shipped worldwide.
As in the earlier versions, the navigation and product finding system is using PDFfolio, as it has been reported in this case study.
The 2006 issue comes with an additional goodie, showing the scalability of PDFfolio. The package contains also the IRS Tax Products Historical DVD, which essentially which essentially has all the tax forms published by the IRS since 1913, and all IRS publications since 1994.
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Federal Computer Week, a leading US publication for IT in government, they have a list of the top Six technologies that reshaped government. This list consists of:
While particularly item 2 may sound a little bit like unintentional humour, it is not really a surprise that half of the technologies are directly communication related. The interesting point, however, is that PDF has been taken into this list.
We from PRODOK Engineering wish you all a happy and successful 2007.
We are looking forward to a year with interesting and exciting new products and projects.
It has now been confirmed that Max Wyss will present two educational sessions at the BFMA Symposium 2007, taking place in the Hilton St.Louis at the Ball Park in St.Louis, MO, May 6 to 10, 2007.
There will be two sessions:
and,
The preliminary program for the Symposium and a preregistration form can be downloaded as a fillable PDF from here.
PDFfolio is a collection of tools and methods developed by PRODOK Engineering for cataloging large collections of PDF documents. It transparently “injects” data from a database into a PDF, making it searchable and sortable.
Find out more, or take a look at some case studies.
Quite regularly, there is a question on the mailing lists about random numbers, mainly for a unique identifier for a document.
Such random numbers are indeed not a big problem to implement, because JavaScript has the Math Object (because it is part of the Core, it is not described in the Acrobat JavaScript documentation), which contains the Math.random() method.
Resently a member of the PlanetPDF forum asked about a way to calculate the time difference between two times indicated in a drop down menu. The times in the drop down menu represent quarter hours (0:00, 0:15, 0:30, 0:45, 1:00, etc.).
(Acrobat) JavaScript provides some extensive time (and date) related functionality in the Date object of the Core. However, using this object is sometimes a bit awkward, and requires some scripting: First, the time strings must be converted to a valid date object. Then, the subtraction is executed. And finally, the result is converted to the desired output string.
It has been one of the “little secrets” of Acrobat since version 4, that loading a fillable form under the browser can take quite a long time, or that all of a sudden the form does not react for some time.