In interaction with government departments and other organisations you are often prompted to download a form, print it fill it out by hand and return it.
If you handwriting is anything like mine, it would aid legibility if you could enter printed text in the question panels. My solution is flpsed - a pseudo PostScript editor, from; http://www.ecademix.com/JohannesHofmann/ It requires compiling and; - flpsed only works on X11-based systems. - You need to have ghostscript installed. - You need to have libfltk-1.1.x from www.fltk.org installed.[1} You use pdftops[2] to convert your source pdf to a postscript(ps) file and then open the ps file with the flpsed program. flpsed is not able to edit the input file but enables you to place text in the document. You then 'save as ' your changes and then convert back from ps to pdf. I have posted on example of this process at; http://www.inet.net.nz/~rossd/example.pdf On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:25, Nick Rout wrote: > There was discussion on pdf generation last night. I unfortunately > missed the point of Steve Holdaway's question about generating pdf's, > [1] but it had to do with documentation generation IIRC. Forgive me if > the pointer below is irrelevant to the question... > >. (You may be familiar > with PDF forms that you can type in, but cannot save unless you have the > full Adobe Acrobat, an example here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] user]$ urpmq -i fltk extracting libfltk1.1-1.1.4-2mdk.i586 Name : libfltk1.1 Version : 1.1.4 Release : 2mdk Group : System/Libraries Size : 769356 Architecture: i586 Source RPM : fltk-1.1.4-2mdk.src.rpm Build Host: klama.mandrake.org Packager : Per �yvind Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL : http://www.fltk.org Summary : Fast Light Tool Kit (FLTK) - main library Description : The Fast Light Tool Kit ("FLTK", pronounced "fulltick") is a LGPL'd C++ graphical user interface toolkit for X (UNIX(r)), OpenGL(r), and Microsoft(r) Windows(r) NT 4.0, 95, or 98. It was originally developed by Mr. Bill Spitzak and is currently maintained by a small group of developers across the world with a central repository in the US. [2] pdf2ps gives a degraded result. Use pdftops. pdftops is part of the xpdf package on my Mandrake 10 machine.
