On 5/30/06, Carl Lowenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/30/06, boblq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does any one have a decent way to fill in a PDF form?
>
> I use nothing but Linux now and have some forms I need
> to fill out then submit as pdf back to the source of the forms.
>
> I was unable to import the forms into OO
> I tried pdftk but found it a bit cryptic to say the least ...
>
> I suppose I could figure this out sooner or later but I wonder
> how others of you do it.
For a PDF form to be fill-in-able it has to be created that way at its
source. I have used Acrobat Reader (proprietary code, free download)
to fill in PDF forms that came from financial institutions. You can't
save the modified PDF but you can print it to a PostScript file.
The O'Reilly book _PDF Hacks_ has some words on the subject, but I
think that fundamentally you need the whole Acrobat package to do
more.
Note -- everybody else says that you can fill in PDF forms with
AcroRead. But nobody says that you can't do anything with the
filled-in form except print it.
Do you really need to send back modified PDF?
carl
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