> What you might look into is a overlay system where the data is > overlayed on the actual form rather than put into the form. This way > you can save the content and edit it later but it would still print > out on the form itself.
Thanks! I passed on the idea to the law office administrator, FWIW. Today I tried out a variation of these ideas when I stubbornly refused to use paper when filling out a W-9 form. The fill-in W-9.pdf has several input fields, but does not have input fields for signature & date. Linkname: PDF Viewer - Software To Open A PDF File - PDF Editing Software URL: http://www.docu-track.com/home/prod_user/PDF-XChange_Tools/pdfx_viewer/ No, I did not attempt WINE. Linkname: PDF Import Extension [Beta] | OpenOffice.org Extension repository URL: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport This is promising, but not quite usable for today's task. Annotation worked great, but the font of original text was changed so it overflowed. It should be possible to re-size each piece of text - but I did not execute the tedium - every line in a separate text frame. (While writing this paragraph I changed a couple lines as proof of concept; hadn't thought of that before i proceeded to...) What I ended up doing is: opened the PDF in GIMP, added signature and date by using GIMP, Save-As PS, then convert to PDF with ps2pdf. Unfortunately at this it has become all lines/curves, no more meaningful text (pdftotext), and the words are not as sharp as real-text font rendering, but I consider it adequate for the purpose, on a form which has less than a dozen fields which are actually read (the rest of the verbiage being unchanged and not needing to be read on filled-out form). Hmm, the search that found the above links, also found Linkname: Advanced PDF Password Recovery : Recover PDF passwords and instantly unlock Adobe Acrobat PDF documents URL: http://www.elcomsoft.com/apdfpr.html /Randall
