On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 12:05:04 -0600
"Donald Cochron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> It has been my experience that PDF documents (outside of Adobe software) can
> not be edited ("filled in") unless the author allowed this at the time the
> document was created. Now a lot of the IRS documents are available for both
> fill in and saving.
You don't necessarily need Adobe software to create the form, although
you do need Adobe Reader to edit it. As far as I have been able to
determine so far (and I've spent the past several days fiddling with
this), no PDF viewer will allow editing except Adobe Reader 7.0. As for
creation, you need Acrobat 7.0 or the recently released 8.0 (earlier
versions can't do it), or ... OPENOFFICE.ORG!! Yay for us!
I have successfully created an editable PDF by exporting to PDF from
Writer 2.03. There's apparently a bug in setting the font for a form
control (Adobe Reader 7.0 is substituting one of its own fonts), but
the control does work and the form is definitely editable. And I didn't
have to do anything special to make it editable; I just exported to PDF
normally. The secret is to make the Writer document a form instead of a
regular document.
Having said all that, you can edit the resulting PDF document in Reader
7.0 and you can print the edited results, but you can't save a copy to
your hard disk. My guess is that Adobe deliberately made it that way
because of Digital Rights Management issues. And having said that,
there are workarounds -- you could install a non-Adobe PDF creator
which works as a printer, then print the edited PDF to your "printer."
Follow-up post about the bug.
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