Hi Lee,
I am sure Adobe is not charging too much for their whole system - after all if they would, then they wouldn't sell anything. I'm just a little frustrated to see that first it says "You need Acrobat", then I get acrobat. Then it says "can be scanned with any PDF417 barcode scanner", so I get one of these. Then I try it out and all I get is lots of weird bitstreams. I think if you guys would say clearly in your numerous PDF product sheets what exactly is required to put a barcode on the PDF and to retrieve the information contained within the barcode, then the whole process would not be as frustrating. Not to mention that until now, I have not yet successfuly retrieved a XML file from any of the barcodes, which makes it hard for me to develop a sample solution that I can show other people. Is there any place I can send a normal PDF form created with adobe designer to and in return I receive a (watermarked would be fine too!) form that I can fill out, print and scan in using any normal PDF417 barcode scanner and no additional decoder software (e.g. just dump it into NotePad)?
Best regards,
Raphael Pirker