TrueForm 1.1.3

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What is TrueForm 1.1.3?

You’ve probably noticed that computers haven’t met the promise of cutting down on the amount of paper and forms in offices. But TrueForm can manage those forms more efficiently. Bureaucrats, take note, this may be your dream come true.

TrueForm lets you scan your original form, then use the electronic replica as a template for entering and saving sets of data on the computer. That’s what most databases do, but instead of designing a database that looks like your existing forms, TrueForm uses what’s already there.

When you first look at the scanned form on the computer you may think the image quality is unacceptable. But TrueForm saves two pictures of each form — one at 72 dpi for the computer screen, another at 300 dpi for a laser printer. The resolution of the form on the screen is sufficient to see where to place the data, but the resolution for the laser printer produces a document nearly indistinguishable from a photocopy.

TrueForm consists of two programs: Set-up and Fill-out. Set-up allows you to scan a form using six popular scanners. It also imports PICT, TIFF, or MacPaint files. You then teach the computer how to fill out the form by clicking those areas where you want fields. The program magically figures out the field boarders, how to format the data, and in what order you want the fields filled. You can customize the form by adding instructions that are displayed when you move into a field. You can specify formulas or default values, and add constraints to check the validity of the data to ensure that a form is filled out correctly.

TrueForm has a number of format options. You can select predefined formats for numeric, Date/Time, and check item values, or you can define your own formats. TrueForm lets you select multiple fields and act on them as a unit. For example, you can move the selected fields as a unit and/or set the type style for the group. Another feature lets you unite a group of fields and treat them as a single entity for duplicating, summing, decimal point alignment, and so on.

The Fill-out program lets you enter data into the master form that you produced with the Set-up program. You can enter data from the keyboard or import data from text files generated by a spreadsheet, database, fax, terminal, or mainframe. (Spectrum claims that future versions will allow you to interface directly with databases such as 4th Dimension.)

But what if you don’t own a scanner? No problem, send your form to Spectrum, and for $20 a page, they'll scan it and send you back an image on a disk. Or you can design your own clean-looking form with MacDraw or even MacPaint, and import that image into the Set-up program.

TrueForm exports your forms onto paper as quickly and conveniently as it imports them into the Mac environment. You can easily print onto your old paper forms because the accurate electronic image lets you align the data within the fields. It can take two to three minutes to load an image into a LaserWriter, so TrueForm provides a Form Caching capability; the image of the form is sent to the LaserWriter once, then subsequent pages are printed at a rate of about four to five forms per minute. The folks at Spectrum also built in a fudge factor for printer alignment, an offset factor for the starting position of data at the top left corner, and a scaling factor that stretches or shrinks the placement of the data from the starting position.

Carman, Chip. (May 1988). TrueForm. MacUser. (pgs. 100, 102).


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