On Saturday 15 December 2007 16:42, Craig White wrote: > 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. > > ---- > 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.
I stand corrected. But in answer to your question as to whether anyone has encountered this problem, partly yes. I have not specifically tried on documents exported from OOo, but I did over some years have to fill in forms created by the High Court (the English one) with Acrobat itself. These I could fill in using Reader on Windows (tho' only things that the High Court had specifically set up to be able to be filled in, not anything I felt like), but not using Reader in Linux. :-( I was using Libranet at the time, now sadly defunct, and I appear to have had an orgy of deleting the wretched things as soon as I could! So I can't immediately test whether the same applies now in Etch. I explained it to myself, apparently erroneously, as I just have to you and just accepted that Adobe had made the Windows Reader more useful. Lisi --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
