I caught this off a thread on the kde-linux mailing list, I don't know if it will help or not, just thought I'd pass it along.
Jim --- Re: [kde-linux] How to type over PDF documents in Linux? From: Gordon Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi all, > > is there an application to type over the blank fields on PDF documents? > > I would like to type over the blank fields of PDF documents and then print > them. Here are two documents of interest. The first is from the OpenOffice Forum http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2686&highlight= Toward the end of the thread there's mention of KWord becoming able to do this. The KWord filter status page is here... http://www.koffice.org/filters/1.2/ Gord --- On Monday 20 October 2003 07:36 pm, dep 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.) -- 8:01pm up 34 days, 13:01, 3 users, load average: 0.07, 0.08, 0.04 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Running Mandrake 9.0 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
