Setting up to use electronic forms

After you read the Preprinted Forms Replacement overview topics, set up to use electronic forms by doing the configuration tasks described in this section.

After the configuration is complete, test your workflows that combine electronic forms with job data to make sure that they work as you expect them to.

In this section:

  1. Adding electronic forms to media objects
    Electronic forms are pages in PDF files that you add to media objects. The CombinePDFWithForm or CombineAFPWithForm step combines the PDF page data with PDF or AFP job data to create a print file that you can print on plain paper.
  2. Running the sample workflow that uses electronic forms to print jobs
    The ElectronicFormJobSample workflow demonstrates how to combine electronic forms with data in PDF files for jobs. The sample workflow prints some jobs by combining electronic forms with data. It prints other jobs on preprinted forms. The workflow is installed with the Preprinted Forms Replacement feature.
  3. Running the sample workflow that uses electronic forms to print jobs with documents
    The ElectronicFormDocSample workflow demonstrates how to combine electronic forms with data in PDF files for jobs that contain documents. The sample workflow prints some jobs by combining electronic forms with data. It prints other jobs on preprinted forms. The workflow is installed with the Preprinted Forms Replacement feature.
  4. Modifying a workflow to use electronic forms with PDF jobs
    You can add a step based on the CombinePDFWithForm step template to a workflow to combine an electronic form with data for PDF jobs.
  5. Modifying a workflow to use electronic forms with AFP jobs
    You can add a step based on the CombineAFPWithForm step template to a workflow to combine an electronic form with data for AFP jobs.

Related information:

Preprinted Forms Replacement
Parent topic: Configuring the system