Creating Acrobat forms that users can save changes to

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Sometimes, otherwise positive technological advances leave important functions behind.

For example, CD’s are so small, the liner notes are usually unreadable. Similarly, cell phones and PDA keyboards have become smaller than most people’s fingers.

And when typewriters gave way to dedicated word processors, and then personal computers and all the other replacements, so did the ability to fill out paper forms easily.

In large part, forms have moved onto the web, but there are still many that need to be filled out in hard copy. There are plenty of government sites, for example, which will provide a PDF version of a form, which usually has not been enabled as a form, so it must be printed out and filled out by hand, or on a typewriter if you can find one at a local Kinkos.

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The biggest medical stories of the year

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There were some incredible breakthroughs in medicine this year:

Diabetes and Nerve function linked
Drop in the incidence of breast cancer
New treatments for Macular Degeneration
Progress toward an Alzheimer’s Vaccine and other treatments

Diabetes linked to nerve function in the pancreas
One of the biggest stories, if it is confirmed by other researchers, is the discovery of the relationship between the nervous system and diabetes.

Diabetes Breakthrough | National Post

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