Quoting Lisi Reisz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Saturday 15 December 2007 15:30, Craig White wrote:
It seems like it's all built in and should work but it's not working
for me and perhaps I am missing something obvious.
I start a new document in openoffice.org (Fedora 7 - OOo 2.3.0 and
also tried with Windows 2.3.1)
Insert => Fields => Other
Functions => Input Field
Reference (enter Text1)
Insert (click OK)
input field shows on page
Export as PDF => standard options but I'll list the checkboxes that I
have checked...
Tagged PDF
Export Notes
Export Bookmarks
Create PDF Form
submit format (FDF)
Export automatically inserted blank pages
On Security tab, I have nothing checked
OK - name it, save it, open it with Adobe Reader 7.0.9, can't click or
enter the field at all.
It works fine with the file I created with Acrobat on my Windows
system (I can enter and edit fields).
As I understand you, you are using Adobe _Reader_ on Fedora. I
think you have
in fact answered your own question. :-) Adobe Reader does just that - reads.
I can't edit anything on Etch. I can't even copy and paste from a document
in Reader.
Presumably you have the full program on Windows? It sounds like it.
That can
edit pdfs.
I thought that it was available for Linux if one wanted tro pay for it, but I
cannot at the moment find it on Adobe's site. I could only find the full
program for Mac OS X and Windows.
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Adobe Reader, even on Fedora (Linux) can do form data entry. You can
also use the 'hand' to select text for copy/paste operations if you
enable it.
You are correct that they do not have a full Acrobat (Professional or
Standard) available for Linux but only Macintosh or Windows but none
of that is responsive to my question.
My question specifically revolves around using OpenOffice.org to
create PDF forms with FDF which clearly is intended by the options and
documentation. The thing is that when I 'Export as PDF', the 'Input
Fields' are not exported with the PDF which is not the intended
behavior as I understand it. So something either doesn't work in
OpenOffice or my understanding is flawed.
Craig
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