Forgetting the interactive bit for the time being (you must understand that interactivity is additional functionality), the benefit of Adobe PDF forms is that they are far easier, and therefore quicker, to develop than SAPScript and Smartforms. It's also pretty much an industry standard.
I developed a form, with no prior knowledge of tx SPF etc. or the form designer relatively quickly and easily, using only a basic tutorial to guide me from the SAP Professional Journal. The SAP supplied form was radically different from the user requirements, so it was a fairly major rewrite. Yet is was almost enjoyable. The design and development tools are streets ahead of Smartforms, and lightyears ahead of SAPScript. I'd say it almost is inituitive, once you get going.
To summarise: I like them!
The interactive part is that you can use these forms not only to display data, but also to collect it. It becomes part of the user interface. The user can type data into the form, which can then be processed within SAP.
I understand, though I've done no work in it, that you can also use the interactive functionality through ABAP Web Dynpro.
The advantage is that Adobe forms are familiar to users, so they don't need to learn yet another tool.
matt
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Matthew Billingham
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