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Re: Providing precompleted PDF forms in Linux

Amos Shapira
Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:07:15 -0700

On 18/09/2007, Gadi Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Meir Kriheli wrote:
>
> > PDF has the notion of forms, FDF[1].
> >
> > Linux.com published few months ago an article about pdftk[2]. In that
> > article, under "Filling out forms", pdftk is used to fill the form
> fields.
> >
> > [1] http://www.planetpdf.com/developer/article.asp?ContentID=6623
> > [2] http://www.linux.com/articles/53701
> >
> Amazing... that's exactly the info I was looking for... thanks for
> saving me alot of unecessary searching.


Possibly another option - Perl PDF modules (though I'm not sure which of the
dozens there is the right one):
http://search.cpan.org/search?m=module&q=pdf&s=1&n=100

Good luck,

--Amos