On 10/20/2008 08:18 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > 2008/10/19 Steven P. Ulrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 17:40:28 +0200 >> "Johnny Rosenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Installed the new 3.0.0 a couple of minutes ago and I finally could >> > try the PDF import extension, that needs OpenOffice.org 3. It's great >> > now being able to import PDF files, but unfortunately my test file >> > didn't look very good, so it's pretty useless for me, at least at the >> > moment. >> > >> > Take a look and see for yourselves. The >> > file< >> http://www.konsumentverket.se/Documents/bilar/kopekontrakt_bilar.pdf>looks >> > right with Adobe Reader, Evince and probably with most of the PDF >> > readers out there. Try to import it to OpenOffice.org and see the >> > differences. Can anyone be satisfied with this? >> > >> > I'll file a bug report unless someone here tells me not to. >> > >> > J.R. >> >> Hello Johnny >> What does it look like if you follow these steps: >> 1. Open "kopekontrakt_bilar.pdf" >> 2.Make some arbitrary changes just to make sure that the pdf plugin has >> done something. >> 3. Export the resulting Draw document to a PDF. >> 4. Open the resulting PDF in the PDF viewer of your choice. >> >> I did exactly the above four steps. I changed one word on the second >> page. Here is the resulting PDF: >> http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/kopekontrakt_bilar2.pdf >> >> I agree that when your PDF (or any other that I have tried) is opened >> up using this plugin, that it looks really bad. In fact, "Format | >> Page | Page" shows the following information: >> Format: A4 >> Margins: >> Left: 1.18" >> Right: 0.39" >> Top: 0.63" >> Bottom: 0.39" >> >> This looked really bad. BUT, the resulting PDF seems to look perfect. >> The margins are certainly nothing like Draw reported them to be. >> >> Steven P. Ulrick >> >> P.S.: To all of those that are having issues with this plugin, here is >> some info about our system: >> Operating System: Fedora Linux 9 >> OpenOffice.org Version: DEV300_m33 Build-1 >> PDF Import Extension: 0.3.2 >> > I attached the resulting file now, after I exported it to PDF from Draw. It > doesn't look like yours, and none of them are exactly right. > > *Your PDF:* > > - Check boxes are gone > - I can't input things on the empty lines (it was possible with the > original file) > - Empty lines are positioned a bit too high, maybe 1 or 2 mm > > *My PDF:* > > - Check boxes are replaced by an "r" with a different font > - I can't input things on the empty lines > - Some lines are too long (maybe a font issue) > > So there is still no way to fill in a PDF form and save it properly… (I've > tried a few other applications, but no luck so far) > > J.R.
Nor do I think you will be able to with the extension; I don't think it's meant for that. When I have to fill out forms like this (for me US tax forms are a good example), I open the form in Adobe Reader (8), fill out the form, and then print it to a cups-pdf virtual printer. That saves the filled out form in PDF. I've found that to me _much_ easier than trying to use PDFEdit and other such pdf editors (other than actual Adobe Acrobat of course). On Windows you should be able to do the same by printing the filled out form to PDFCreator. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
