Every couple years I have ocasion to need to fill out a PDF.
Anyone know of a free one for OS X I'm at 10.39
John,
Preview in OS X Tiger has an annotation tool that can be used to fill
out a form. I don't think it's in Panther, however, does Preview from
Tiger work in Panther? I haven't tried it, but it might work. 2.1.x
works in Tiger.
Before that I used AppleWorks. The PDF has an embedded bitmapped file
that can be opened in a Drawing document. You'll have to make a separate
transparent text box for each line in the form unless you're really good
at spacing over the entire document. I make one text box, fill it in,
then hold down the Option key to drag a copy to the next line on a form
and type the next text...repeat move... If you need to change the font
or font size, select all and change globally for all text boxes.
Probably works in Pages too?
You can do similar in Word. I think I've done it in GraphicConverter, too.
When PDFs were first developed, I used to be able to open a PDF in a
text editor and edit the code and text, but I think they're all
encrypted now or at least, not text based.
Betty
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