On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 05:41:59PM -0500, Mark Gilbert wrote: > > In theory the best way (and an easy one) would be to convert > (transparently) the pdf to a real format, allow editing, and on save, > convert back.
I don't even care to create a PDF out of the result so much as just print it. But if it can be printed, making a PDF would be a small step. > Unfortunately, for some production cases, the form would > have to be perfectly reproduced. Right. Acrobat reader->PS->some_real_format_via_ghostscript should do a decent job. > However it is quite possible that the > source needn't be, and thus one could easily replicate the pdf. Even if > it need be, you could look at the different generation of the commercial > products that do this, and compare to see where (if) our free software > two-step differs. I don't even mind a few manual steps. That is what scripting is for. :-) It's the final tool (abiword in this case) that needs to handle inputing on top of some kind of form that is the clincher. > And there is one other way, but I'd rather not end up in Sklyarov's old > cell. :-) Me neither. I am not a US citizen or resident, but then again, neither was he. b. -- Brian J. Murrell
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