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Most of administering LincDoc is through a web browser. We strongly recommend Google Chrome 15+ or Firefox 9+ for administering the LincDoc system. The reason for this is that the admin UI is highly Javascript intensive, and those particular browsers have more powerful Javascript engines. Note that for end users the UI is less complex and so it is OK to use older browsers. Administering LincDoc from a mobile web browser is not supported.
LincDoc can work with these types of source documents:
There are some limitations to be aware of when choosing your forms authoring tool. This table summarizes those differences.
| Source document format | .doc | .docx | .odt | |
|
Supports multirow? |
yes |
yes |
yes |
no |
|
Can produce TIFF output? |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
|
Can produce PDF output? |
yes |
yes |
yes |
yes |
|
Can produce DOC output? |
yes |
no |
no |
no |
|
Can produce DOCX output? |
no | yes | no | no |
|
Can produce ODT output |
no | no | yes | no |
|
Supports conditional paragraphs? (LincDoc EE only) |
yes | yes | yes | no |
|
Supports cryptographic digital signatures? (requires the LincDoc signature module) |
only when converted to PDF at generation time | only when converted to PDF at generation time | only when converted to PDF at generation time | only when saved as PDF at generation time |
|
Can be used for iPad-based forms? |
no | no | no | yes |
|
Supports repagination?(LincDoc EE only) |
yes | yes | yes | no |
LincDoc Connector software is used to write out documents and data to third party platforms. Currently there are connectors for writing out to a Windows file share, and Laserfiche. The connector software installs as a Windows service to the server on which the documents and data are being written to. The service is written in Java (Java 6 to be precise), so Java must be pre-installed to the Windows server first.