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Scribbles Technology

Fillable PDF

I had to change a membership form for a non-profit organization from a PDF to a fillable PDF.

We had text boxes, radio buttons and date fields.

In comes to LibreOffice Writer to the rescue!

You can use the Form controls to add form elements to your form:

The position and size controls allow you exactly size your controls and manage the X and Y positions too:

The radio buttons can be assigned a group so that they may be chosen once

Once you are done adding the form elements, you can export it as a PDF and test it. The great thing is that the PDF is fillable and saveable.

Get your LibreOffice Writer here:

Writer | LibreOffice – Free Office Suite – Based on OpenOffice – Compatible with Microsoft

NOTE: It is better to save the document as ODT and not as DOCX. If you save as DOCX, Microsoft Word tends to open it and mess with the LibreOffice positioning.

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Collaboration

Technologies you can grow with

It was great meeting the Sysvine team on short notice.

I got to see the new “Sysvine Park” (https://maps.app.goo.gl/pPW72ThszAA2h2ga8) building in Chennai. I loved the design and architecture of the building with 1s and 0s as lights on the ceiling and the honeycombs for the team members.

We had a nice demo of the Healthcare product “Sysvine HealthPractice” (https://www.healthpractice.care/). It is interesting how a decade old product which is already being used in hospitals in India is being revamped using the latest technologies and made available using a simple subscription model and features.

It was great to discuss collaboration opportunities with Senthil Kumaran (Senthil Kumaran | LinkedIn) Senior Director of FinTech around products and services and meet in person after 5 years of online meetings.

It was amazing to meet the DevOps team with Vinoth and Lokesh and see how they were together adding value for a Data Science team in Germany.

And so thankful to meet Hasini and Krishna (travelled all the way from Krishnagiri) and have lunch with them.

It was short but wonderful catch-up with the Sysvine team. I am looking forward to more Product collaboration and Services outsourcing in 2023 and beyond!