On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:59:29 +0000 Lisi Reisz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> 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. I can do exactly what Craig wants to do using OOo on 64-bit Ubuntu Gutsy. In fact, I started doing it over a year ago shortly after Dapper came out with OOo 2.0 and I was able to get Reader 7.0 for Linux installed. Craig is also correct that you can't get Acrobat running under Linux, not even the Windows version with Wine or Crossover. To this date there are only two reasonable solutions for creating editable PDFs on Linux: direct export from OOo 2.0 or later, or direct export from Scribus. They both work fine for me, so apparently Craig is doing something wrong. I would guess that he has failed to check the right boxes in the PDF export dialog box. PDF export has a wide variety of options, a lot of which involve security, such as allowing printing, copying, editing, etc. I might also suggest that he try creating PDFs with different kinds of editable fields - drop down combo boxes, radio buttons, check boxes, straight text boxes, and so on. If some work and others don't it might help him figure out what is wrong. Not only does PDF export have a bewildering variety of options, but setting up the file in OOo is also not trivial. I also note that Adobe Reader is the only real viewer for editing editable PDFs. KPDF, evince, and the other open source readers still cannot edit an editable PDF file. I believe that Cabaret also has the ability, and I have it installed on my Gutsy computer, but it is not very stable. I think Craig's problem lies in how he is using OpenOffice to create the files, but I would also suggest that he get Adobe Reader 8.1 for Linux. Reader 7.0 or later can edit PDF files, but you might as well have the latest and greatest. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
