No, I'm talking about making a form that has field to enter data in in pdf.
That way, anybody can go and fill out the form at their leisure and then
submit it. I have a program that can strip all the data out and enter it
into a database. Basically, it's for the more brain-dead people out there
who need to be able to fill out the form. The problem is, I could run it
through millions of filters, but would I keep the data fields? Maybe I
would be better off sticking with hypertext, non? I think it's a *bit* more
portable than the supposedly "portable" document format.
--Mike
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> I'm not too clear on what you want - you're talking about a form
> on the web that when the values are input, it generates a pdf
> file?
>
> You can do that with PHP, I think... I haven't tried it yet myself.
>
> You can also print from any normal printer on windows/mac to your
> samba printer using a postscript driver using ghostscript to save
> as a postscript file, then use ps2pdf. I've got this set up myself.
>
> Curt
>
> On Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 06:48:41PM -0700, Michael Smith wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a need to write a minimal amount of .pdf files, probably not
> > enough to justify buying Acrobat. Is there any way to write pdf's in
> > Linux? I know there's a filter (dvipdfm
> > http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/06/07/928792458.html) that goes from
> > dvi to pdf, but what I'm concerned about is making a pdf form that you
> > can have data input areas in. Think along the lines of html forms, but
> > in .pdf format.
> > Or, can we make these in .dvi's with tex or equivalent and then filter
> > it? In case none of you have talked to my wife lately, I suck at word
> > processing-type stuff.
> >
> > --
> > Michael J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 2250 Patterson #25 Eugene, OR 97405
> > (541)346-7562
> >
> >
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Michael J. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2250 Patterson #25 Eugene, OR 97405
(541)346-7562
