RBW wrote:
> 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
Looks like
convert -quality 100 Pg13of13.pdf Pg13of13.jpg
is /supposed/ to do what you want
Check with
identify -verbose Pg13of13-test.jpg
These progs have a zillion options, maybe there's something else that
could do additional magick magic?
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php
file://localhost/usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-6.2.2.0/www/convert.html
Oh, BTW, gimp has an option for jpeg compression, too. But convert seems
like a nicer thing to script -- if it would only do what you want <heh>.
..jim
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