On 10/21/2008 08:50 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> 2008/10/20 NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>>
>> Nor do I think you will be able to with the extension; I don't think
>> it's meant for that.
> 
> So is there something out there, that IS meant for that? I guess there is no
> Adobe Acrobat for Linux, is there? And it's not free anyway…

You can use pdfedit... however it's pretty complicated and I've never
fully mastered how to use it properly.

> 
> 
>>
>>
>> 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).
> 
> Well, that's probably also what I would do, until I find a better way. The
> disadvantage is (or isn't it?) that if I want to change something a few days
> later, maybe a misspelling or something, I have to open the empty original
> and fill everything in all over again, hopefully right this time… If the
> extension worked perfectly (maybe it will some day), I would just convert it
> to something else, then go from there. If it something like the document I
> attached earlier, I would probably save it as a template. That was my idea
> anyway.
> J.R.
> 
> 
>> On Windows you should be able to do the same by printing the
>> filled out form to PDFCreator.
>>


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