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Challenge Application in PDF form

Pinocchio

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Anyone who whishes to apply for the challange currently has to save, download and print the whole HTML challenge application website. Wouldn't it be better, if a printer-friendly PDF file was added to the page?

Something like this:

sr3.mytempdir.com/666335/w4w40JG2Z+pne8eBvqIvReG13YjYWKgRLgkpIVMecgHX84k5iTzZCh06s8EfRhUZ4S1m/Million%20Dollar%20Challenge%20Application.pdf

(highlight the text and paste it into your browser, if it doesn't work, add h t t p : / / ) (there's also a space between T and z there, make sure there's no spaces when you paste)

p.s.
people with fewer than 15 posts can't post urls, what a demented rule!:mad:
 
I think what the OP was trying to say is that if you go to the application on the JREF site you get a HTML version (with JREF ads). See here.

This version is faulty as rules 1 - 11 are part of rule 1.
 
rjh01 said:
I think what the OP was trying to say is that if you go to the application on the JREF site you get a HTML version (with JREF ads). See here.

This version is faulty as rules 1 - 11 are part of rule 1.
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Well it does say "This is the primary and most important of these rules:..." and with there only being two that is hard to get confused about!

I'll drop Jeff an email about it and ask him about the PDF idea - seems a good one to me.
 
I've fixed the broken challenge page. Thanks very much for bringing that to my attention. The .PDF suggestion is under consideration. I think it's a good idea.
 
Gr8wight said:
Yes, and if you follow the directions on that page, it will prompt you to download the pdf file.
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I saw that, too.

I was just providing the clickable link and saying that the file wouldn't be downlaoded directly. I, too, like the idea of a PDF.

I am not sure what PDF-Forms are capable of, but it might help to further aide the application process, if the form could be filled out on the computer and then be printed completely?

Rasmus.
 
Rasmus said:
I saw that, too.

I was just providing the clickable link and saying that the file wouldn't be downlaoded directly. I, too, like the idea of a PDF.

I am not sure what PDF-Forms are capable of, but it might help to further aide the application process, if the form could be filled out on the computer and then be printed completely?

Rasmus.
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PDF forms are easier to read, and manipulate, and print out. To the best of my knowledge, they cannot be filled out and returned online.
 
Gr8wight said:
PDF forms are easier to read, and manipulate, and print out. To the best of my knowledge, they cannot be filled out and returned online.
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They can be, but I believe it requires some expensive server-side software.
Challenge applications need to be notarized anyway, so it's probably a moot point.
 
Gr8wight said:
PDF forms are easier to read, and manipulate, and print out. To the best of my knowledge, they cannot be filled out and returned online.
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It might be doable with some sort of "get PDF form, manipulate PDF form, save locally, use a file posting page" method, though it probably wouldn't be very streamlined.
 
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