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PDFs are JavaScriptable and using JavacScript, you can definitely supply information for fields on a form completion PDF application. As far as I know, nobody has yet tackled this issue in Rev. Interesting project, though. I don't know if Adobe publishes the API for forms completion but dissecting t...

PDFs are JavaScriptable and using Java

To send email from a Rev app, you have two choices. You can use the revMail command (see the documentation) which will launch the user's mail application and enable him or her simply to click "Send" on an email generated by that command. You can use libEMail and write Rev scripts to build and send t...

I just recently discovered that Dreamhost.com, a popular hosting service for Rev developers, will allow you to put Rev CGIs right in your domain. No need for special cgi-bin anythings. Very cool. Just: 1. Grab the Linux CGI engine called revolution.x86 from the usual place (you need, I think, an Ent...

I've spent the better part of my career designing, building, hosting and evaluating online communities. And while I understand how the innitial impression of a forum laid out like this one might feel overwhelming, the fact is that in the long run and based on that experience, a larger number of bett...

As many of you know, I'm a longtime advocate of forums as a more effective means of communicating than email lists, so I'm glad to see RunRev launch these forums. I plan to check in multiple times per day and although I doubt it will ever replace the user list, maybe it will find a way to help the t...