Hi :) I'm not sure what i did. Something fairly hideous. I think i might have used Gimp to make it into a Gif or Png image and then inserted that. I'm kinda flailing around with Pdfs at the moment. Regards from Tom :)
>________________________________ > From: Girvin R. Herr <[email protected]> >To: Tom Davies <[email protected]> >Cc: Felmon Davis <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" ><[email protected]> >Sent: Wednesday, 5 December 2012, 23:34 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Pdf import. Was: Fw: Wiki quick guide >page - see if this is a good format. . . > > > >Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> There are many different sorts of Pdfs (fdf "and what-not" as Amiko says in >> interviews on Nasa tele). Sometimes forms can be filled out using a proper >> Pdf reader such as Foxit (a good Pdf reader in Windows) but sometimes people >> try to make things difficult so that you are forced into using Adobe's Pdf >> reader, or use a work-around as you did with the frst one in Draw (sounded >> like a Pita though). >Tom, >Actually, no. I found it was fairly easy to do in Draw. > >> One company sent me a Pdf form to fill in and then complained that i >> returned it as a Pdf! It had been a bit ilke a multiple choice in that it >> had one question per line but instead of the choices it just left the rest >> of the line empty. I pulled the form into Writer, set it as the background, >> added a 2 column table on top and adjusted the row's widths to fit the form >> and then wrote on my layer and saved as Pdf. I was really chuffed because >> it's the first time i had managed anything like it with Pdfs but then got a >> complaint! >That was their problem, not yours. Sounds like they are in the last century. >Unless they wanted the ability to change your entries without your >permission. I hope you didn't sign it! How did you "pull" the PDF form into >Writer?! > ><snip> >Girvin Herr > > >-- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
