On Jul 14, 2005, at 12:16 PM, Jon Drews wrote:
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
Wow! Sweeeeet! I've gotta try that.
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.
That's good to hear.
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.
Two questions:
1 - are you able to then save the filled-out forms
2 - can one easily extract the information that's in the form fields?
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.
Thanks, Jon. I'll be trying it out on Knoppix.
Regards,
- Robert
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