-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 boblq wrote:
[r.e. filling out PDF form] >>>> Does any one have a decent way to fill in a PDF form? [snip] >>> 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. This is not necessarily true. The creator of the PDF document can choose to apply "document rights" to the form, allowing any user to fill out and save the modified form --- for example I can save the modified IRS W-9 PDF form to disk with Acrobat Reader 7.0.1 for linux. If unfortunately this is not the case, as others have noted, you may save the unmodified form to disk, fill it out, and print to a postscript file, which you can change back into a pdf with ps2pdf. This may, however, pretty much munge any automatic parsing of the PDF expected on the other end. I haven't seen a supposedly editable PDF document which could not be edited by acroread 7.0.1, but this might be it. David Looney - -- I cannot say that I do not disagree with you. - Groucho Marx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEfN3HNEZw+18StY8RAmg5AJ4qz0/WHs4zkbPxBofE0HtQ0oqXkQCfbl// 8ioUBfGKO20cD7ApC9bXkHE= =wHvX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
