This is not a particularly elegant solution, but it's one way to get it done. GIMP has the ability to import postscript files and a text tool which you could use to complete the forms. The major drawback is that the end result is a binary graphic file.
I can't remember where, but sometime during this past year I was reading a file about postscript and PDF's which explained that it was very difficult to convert a PDF file back into a formatted text file. I wish I could explain why, but my brain stored the conclusion and quickly forgot all the detail. mike On Monday 20 October 2003 02:36 pm, you wrote: > first, in answer to my own question having to do with cutting a few > pages out od a pdf file and saving them as a separate pdf file, it > finally got done though, sadly, by a friend who was running a windows > app which converted the postscript file i got from printing those pages > to a file. (the winapp did, though, make it into a 1.6-meg pdf, which > is a little excessive.) > > now i'm seeking to do something else. the state of connecticut offers > all its court forms as .pdfs. which may be printed out and filled out > by hand or -- ugh -- typewriter. i do not need to preserve these as > .pdfs, but i would like to import them into something such that i can > fill them out on the computer prior to printing and then, of course, > save them. this would, ideally, allow them to simply be imported into a > word processor or something like it. i know of no linux application > which allows this, however. any ideas? > > (for those who might be interested as to why i need to do all this, i > draw your attention to the october 27 issue of "national review," page > 44, an essay by me.) -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 ---- "More laws, less justice." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC -------- _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
