RBW wrote:
> boblq wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 30 May 2006 03:02 pm, Legatus wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> But my acroread won't even allow me to enter any data :( This even
>> though it claims to have the forms plugin installed.
>> I think a mentioned a web service a while back. Guess I need to
>> look at some old mail.
>> BobLQ
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Service Fee? $299 "Standard version" groan...
> I feel your pain Bob...
>
> I am filling out a form right now with a method I learned a long time
> ago taking advantage of a scanner. I too would like to leave the PDF in
> the computer all the way until final print but the closest I can think
> of getting to that is to open the PDF in the GIMP then save as a JPG
> then open in OpenOffice Draw modify with the Text Tool then export as
> PDF again. The problem with this is the JPG the GIMP makes from the PDF
> is not very good (it sucks).
>
> Fortunately I have access to a scanner (right now that is a HP Series
> 1400 Multi-Function Printer/Scanner/yadda yadda yadda) so I take a hard
> copy of a form or I print the PDF form out and I scan the form and save
> it as a JPG (I scan at 600dpi) with the GIMP. Once I have a JPG of each
> page I open the JPG in OpenOffice Draw and use the Text tool to add text
> to the document ("save as" right away as an ODF file and work from
> that). Once completed in OpenOffice Draw I "Export to PDF" and the form
> is filled out and neatly presentable.
Well, that sounds like a nice clean little recipe <grin>. Does it ever
come out the same twice in a row?
>
> Considering how cheap scanners are, and until I can find a program that
> will take a PDF file and "save as/export to" high quality JPG, this is
> the method I use to get from point A to point B and get the job done.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to convert a PDF file to a high quality JPG?
> That would eliminate the whole first couple steps of print then scan to
> JPG for forms in my current method.
Don't know about the quality, but one way is imagemagick's convert tool
(eg, /usr/bin/convert from ImageMagick-6.2.2.0-3.fc4.2)
-- just run
convert xxx.pdf xxx.jpg
and it seems to work!
Betcha there's still more ways.
..jim
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