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Introduction

This is a LibGuide to accompany Susanna Marlowe's "Cool Tools" presentation at Ohio Regional Association of Law Libraries (ORALL) County Law Librarians Special Interest Group meeting on April 22, 2016 in Columbus, Ohio. It has been updated.

Reviews

CutePDF reviews

CutePDF Writer
Review by PCWorld

Phantom PDF reviews

Foxit Phantom PDF review: An easy alternative to Acrobat for editing PDFs
Phantom PDF allows rudimentary editing of the text of PDFs, which CutePDF does not.
Foxit PhantomPDF Standard Review
from Download.com
Adobe Acrobat
Reviewed by PCMag. Acrobat is the gold standard, but price and complexity are cons.
Best PDF editors: Reviewed and rated
PC World 8/21/23, last visited 3/6/23

Handout

Handout from April 22, 2016 Presentation

Automating Fillable Forms

Automating your Fillable Forms
Take your forms to the next level by using HotDocs and these resources from A2J.
Woodpecker
A new product for small and large law firms, to help with the automation of forms and documents.

Vendor Websites

CutePDF

Phantom PDF - by Foxit

Adobe Acrobat

Examples of Fillable Forms

Franklin County Law Library Legal Forms
PDF version of the legal forms on this page can be typed on and printed directly from the website.

Links

Adobe browser shortcuts make it easier to create PDFs
Engadget 7/30/20
How to Create Court-Usable PDFs
From the Foxit blog
How to create a fillable PDF form in LibreOffice
LibreOffice is a free office software.
I Don’t Need a PDF Subscription
David Whelan 10/16/19
Adding Multi-line Form Fields
Do not check "allow scrolling" if you want to print out the form.
A Better Way to Embed PDF Documents in Web Pages
By Amit Agarwal Published on 2020-02-08
How to Combine Word Documents
How-to-Geek 3/5/20

Guide Author

Susanna Marlowe

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Contact:

Franklin County Law Library Reference Librarian

614-525-4971