On 02/12/06, charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

While on this topic of PDFs would anyone know of a PDF viewer that is
capable of filling in forms etc for Linux? Adobe reader is only able to
view not fill in forms sadly.


As far as I understood this, it's more of a matter of the PDF file itself
allowing fields to be edited or not. If the file allows this then Acroread
will allow you to fill in the fields. A separate file attribute determines
whether it will allow you to save the file with the edited fields or not (
i.e. if you can't save it then the only practical thing to do with it is to
print it with the filled fields).

Maybe you should look for a tool which allows to control these file
attributes?

Short of that - Kword (from KDE's koffice) is supposed to be able to import
PDF files. The only time I tried this it didn't quite work well but YMMV.

I'd be curious to hear if you find something in that area too.

Cheers,

--P
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