This chapter explores useful recipes related to Smart Forms. We will start with a simple recipe that will allow you to change the text editor of the Smart Form to Microsoft Word. Then we will see how page protection for a number of text lines may be applied using folders in order to ensure that certain lines are printed together on one page.
We will also see how to set an image as background of a form page for only preview and also for print. The procedure for generating multiple form outputs in a single spool request will be discussed in an upcoming recipe. We will also see how the preview and the print dialog may be suppressed, and the output directly converted to PDF. Finally we will see the recipe for calculating subtotals using sorting criterion at the Smart Form level.
We assume that the reader has basic Smart Forms knowledge. In addition, the familiarity with the structure of the form-calling program is needed.