On 11/15/05, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 03:33:15PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
> > Nestor wrote:
> > >
> > > Is there a way to read athe contents of a PDF file (php, perl, c, unix
> > > script) ?
> >
> > acroread is the canonical way to read a PDF.
> > There is also ghostview (gv). There is also xpdf.
> >
> > kpdf, viewpdf.app also come to mind. You can also use the pdf2ps to put
> > it into a more easily manipulable form.
> >
> > -john
>
> jhriv, is there a OSS pdf viewer that allows one to fill in a pdf form
> and print it?
Here's something moderately interesting that I just found:
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Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.sys.mac.printing,gnu.ghostscript
Subject: Re: postscript errors from Acrobat files
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neill Massello)
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 19:50:52 GMT
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 12:50:52 PDT
Sean Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd love to just save and send the filled PDF, but unfortunately that
> doesn't work.
The Internal Revenue Service's Federal Tax Products CD-ROM, available in
the late fall every year for about $20 from <htttp://ntis.fedworld.gov>,
includes a crippled version of Acrobat that can save filled-in forms.
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