You can make the pdf form fillable using Acrobat. I'm sure other tools as well, I am just not familiar with them. Eric
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Mark Jarvis <[email protected]> wrote: > > Try http://www.pdftoword.com/. If the file is a true PDF and not an image > embedded in a PDF file, they will convert it and email the resulting word > file back to you. The resulting file can be edited in Open Office or > whatever. > > BTW, every so often someone sends me a scanned document embedded in a PDF > file instead of just sending a JPEG or TIFF file. Why do they do that? I > have to use Photoshop to convert it to a standard image format so that I can > run it through OCR. > > Mark > > Tim Bogart wrote: > > All, > > I have been asked to provide information as part of a job application. > In the first part of the process, this was done on the web. Now in this > next phase, I have been asked to provide information by filling out forms. > They would prefer to have an electronic version of this data. > Unfortunately, they have sent me a document in .PDF file format. As we all > have known for 20 years or more, these files are normally set to disallow > editing, as this one is. I'm familiar with pdf2txt and the rest of the > manual tools. I could go to the local service bureau and print out twenty > of them, but I don't want to spend three days doing this. Open office > doesn't seem to be able to open a pdf formatted file. Does anybody know of > a free (as in beer or freedom) application that runs on windoze that will > allow me to edit this file? I tried something called "Foxit" but it doesn't > work as advertised. You can't edit text with it. It acts simply as a > viewer. Does anybody have personal experience with something that's free > that actually works? > > TIA, > > -- Tim B. > > ------------------------------ > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail > settings:http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >
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