On 7/14/05, Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > I'm helping out my local neighborhood association put out a > questionnaire. My idea would be to send out a PDF file with fields > that people could fill in, save, and then e-mail back. Anyone know > if there is any Open Source software that would allow me to create > this? Can it be done at all?
Yes; Scribus. Here is a WiKi page describing how to make forms wit Scribus: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Your_first_PDF_form_with_Scribus A general discussion on why Scribus uses *.pdf is here: http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=pdfexport1 The documentation for Scribus is here: http://docs.scribus.net/ I have not created any *.pdf forms with Scribus so I can't comment as to how good the forms are. I have created *.pdf's with Scribus and I must say it does a good job. I also filled in *.pdf forms, from an insurance company, using Adobe Acrobat Reader, on Libranet 2.8.0. It worked quite well. I think I also did tax forms in *.pdf, on Libranet. Anyway the Adobe Acrobat that comes with Linux will cope with forms. I am compiling Scribus on FreeBSD right now to see if I can create a *.pdf form. I will let you know how it works. -- Kind regards, Jonathan _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
