gHacks technology news » forms http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Use The Computer To Fill Out Paper Forms http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/19/use-the-computer-to-fill-out-paper-forms/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/19/use-the-computer-to-fill-out-paper-forms/#comments Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:22:10 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5448 It looks much nicer and is better readable if a paper form is filled out by using a type writer or computer printer. The person who is working with the filled out paper forms will thank you if you do it that way. I once had to check and process thousands of paper forms that were send by post and fax to my office and it was sometimes horrendous to decipher the handwriting.

Nedjosoft Paperform is a free application that can be used to fill out paper forms with a computer. The document has to be available digitally so that it can be processed by the software, this can be achieved by scanning a paper form or download a digital version right away.

The program works basically by loading so called pages into it. Pages are images with the jpg, png, bmp or gif file extension. The user can then switch to edit mode once an image has been loaded into the software.

Fields can be added to the image which can later be filled out by the user. There are two basic types of fields: text fields and check boxes.

Both fields are divided further. Text boxes can be single or multi lined and aligned to the left, center or right while check boxes can have various forms as well. Each field can be placed exactly on the image so that they match the form fields perfectly.

Once all fields have been added to the image the digital form can be saved and filled out.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/19/use-the-computer-to-fill-out-paper-forms/feed/ 0 Autofill Forms for Firefox http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/14/autofill-forms-for-firefox/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/14/autofill-forms-for-firefox/#comments Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:55:10 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/14/autofill-forms-for-firefox/ I regularly register at websites that either force me to register to leave a comment or that offer such great value that I want to join to become a member of the community. The signup process is always the same. Enter a username, a password, a valid email and if you want several additional information about yourself to register at that website.

If you do that regularly this becomes a tedious time consuming process. I like to automate stuff like that. Autofill Forms is a Firefox extension that lets you fill out web forms with the click of the mouse / pressing a keyboard shortcut. It is possible to create profiles in case that you are using more than one identity on the Internet or use the extension for work and spare time.

You can fill out a lot of variables like name, username, street, city, phone and several others with the option to add new ones to that list or edit existing fields. This is important because the extension uses possible form field names to identify forms on the website.

By default it assigns the birthday to forms that have the name byear, birthyear, birth-year or dob-year. It would be possible to add ‘date of birth’ to that list and every other phrase that comes to your mind.

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It is possible to set rule priorities and add site specific rules. Profiles can be exported which is excellent if you work with different computers. The default keyboard shortcut for filling out a form is ALT + J.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2007/09/14/autofill-forms-for-firefox/feed/ 4 Use FireForm to fill out forms automatically http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/15/use-fireform-to-fill-out-forms-automatically/ http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/15/use-fireform-to-fill-out-forms-automatically/#comments Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:05:54 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/15/use-fireform-to-fill-out-forms-automatically/ I was looking for a Firefox extension that would fill out certain forms automatically which would help me a lot because I’m filling out a lot of forms to test out new sites and register for products. The guys at downloadsquad found a nice Firefox extension called FireForm which does exactly what I was looking for.

Fireform is able to fill out most forms automatically when you right-click the icon of the extension in the status bar and select fill in this page – left-clicking the icon has the same effect. You will have to create a profile before you can start using the automatic fill option. The profile is independent from existing Firefox profiles and will be used only for the FireForm extension.

You can supply information like names, contact information (email, phone), address and misc information like birthday. Once the profile is created you can use FireForm or create more profiles for other users that use this computer.

There might be the time when you come upon a website that uses a field that is not covered by the default selection that you edited in your FireForm profile. It would then be time to add a custom field to FireForm by using the Display Fields option of it.

Now hover over the field that you want to add and FireForm should display information about that field, the most important is the name that the developers have chosen for it. Remember that name and go to tools > fireform > advanced profiles management and add a description that you can choose freely, a value that should be automatically entered and the trigger that was displayed when you hovered over the form.

Sites tend to use different names for the same subject and you will have to edit those settings often in the beginning. You can add additional triggers to a form by separating them with “;”.

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