boblq wrote:
On Tuesday 30 May 2006 02:12 pm, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
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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I wanted to send it back as an easy way of doing things. But as
it is I cannot even fill it out. So at the moment the sending vs
printing is a moot point.
The "Standard" version is $299 which is something the CB in me
won't go for.
Maybe I will just print the form, fill it out, and FAX it.
BobLQ
I fill it in using acroread, and then print it to PDF using kprint(er).
I just tell acroread to use kprint(er), and then choose the PDF printer.
I haven't used any free PDF readers that have the form filling feature,
but that is not to say that I have looked very hard.
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