Contest organizers are increasingly putting contest info and entry forms on line. This is great, as it allows competitors to fill out entry forms before hand, instead of doing it in line at registration. Since most contests have seperate sheets for each model, this can be quite time consuming.
However, to ease the effort on the competitor's part, the file type which is provided online is important. I see commonly three file types these forms are provided in: pdf, jpeg, and .doc.
Most of us do not have the software to EDIT pdf forms. Jpegs are by nature uneditable. What this means is that we have to print out the number of blank forms needed, and fill out ALL required info each time.
On the other hand, a word processing format such as .doc CAN be edited by virtually everyone with a computer. Almost any word processor these days, even Wordpad that comes with Windows, can edit a .doc format document. That means we can edit the forms to put in our names, addresses and such that are needed on each form. Then we can print out the number needed and only have to fill in the model info, which is usually different on each one anyway.
Thus, I recommend that contest organizers do their entry forms in .doc and place these on line, rather than jpeg or pdf versions.