James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
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?
Dead nuts on everytime ;^)
scan at 600dpi
save as JPG in The Gimp
Once you get there you are golden ;^)
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
More than one way to do it... That's what I was thinking...
Lemme try ImageMagick...
It turns out that ImageMagick does the same thing that the GIMP does...
produce a very low quality JPG...
1716557 May 20 22:26 Pg13of13.pdf
211333 May 30 19:11 Pg13of13-test.jpg
RBW
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