On Sun, August 12, 2007 4:51 am, Carlos E. R. wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > 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.
Here's an example of a form-fillable pdf from my employer... http://easier.co.la.ca.us/JobsInfo/empapp.pdf ...which you can fill out in *nix but not save unless you're in Wintendo. > > 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. > >> 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. Yeah, I suppose you could print to another PDF but that doesn't solve the "issue." I just asked Adobe when this feature will be available. -- kai -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
