On Sunday 12 August 2007, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Saturday 2007-08-11 at 22:41 -0400, BandiPat wrote: > > Have you tried the newer 1.6.3 Koffice for this? I just got a new > > build the other day, loaded a PDF file in full editable form into > > KWord and of course, you can save as PDF from KWord or print to > > pdf. > > I assume you mean kword. Yes, kword can open PDF, and modify them, > but that's not the intention. The intention is to open a PDF Form as > in Acroread, where you can only fill the fields the author left for > filling, and not being able to touch anything else. There is a > special version of acroread that allows saving the data: that's what > I want, in Linux, and free. > > In fact, I just opened a test PDF in kword and the text flow was > broken. That would be unacceptable if I were to submit such a for to > the administration. > > I just tried to open one of their official forms and it took > two..three minutes to open it. These things include calculations and > possibly javascript. When it finished opening it, the appearance is > very far from the correct one. >************* Yes, you're right, if you are just wanting to "fill" out the form and resave as PDF, kword would be overkill, but it is good to know we have something that can now edit a pdf easily.
> > Also, check > > out "cups-pdf", which allows you to create a virtual printer for > > direct saving/printing to a very good pdf file! > > I see no cups-pdf in opensuse 10.2. Is it new in 10.3, perhaps? :-? > > I have my ways to print to pdf, but that wasn't my exact question, > anyway. > > -- > Cheers, > Carlos E. R. ========== I believe this would be your easiest solution to your problem. Fill out the form in acroread, then print it to pdf using the cups-pdf virtual printer. Simple and straight forward. I don't remember the mirror for cups-pdf, but remember seeing someone here mention it in another thread. I'm using Zenwalk Linux right now, so am not keeping up with all of SuSE's mirrors & programs so much. regards, Lee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
