Re: how to edit a pdf file in linux
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:01:41 -0500
From: Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Editing PDF forms
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Dave Howorth wrote:
>Does anybody know of a way to edit PDF forms then save the result?
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I fill out the IRS PDF forms and save them.
Use pstoedit and transfig to create a .fig file of the PDF, like:
pstoedit -f "fig:-startdepth 999" <in> <out>%d.fig
Then use xfig to edit the file.
Export it to eps (what you needed transfig for) and print it.
You can keep the fig files for re-editing.
I used to keep XP around just for Adobe to do this. Adobe does,
depending on what release of xfig, a "better" job. But this certainly
works great.
Regards,
Hugo.
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:27:48 -0500
From: Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Editing PDF forms
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Dave Howorth wrote:
>Does anybody know of a way to edit PDF forms then save the result?
>
I just checked that again and with the latest Sarge the output looks
super. This presumes you start out with a pdf form of some sort...
Get xfig and transfig
use: pstoedit -f "fig:-startdepth 999" <in> <out>%d.fig to generate your
.fig files.
These you edit with xfig. Use "T" button to enter text, I usually use
helvetica, looks better.
After you save the result (in a dir. that you have write perms to!) use
the "export" button in "file" to generate an .eps file. I get better
results with a margin of 25.
This you look at with gv and print. Better yet, send it to them and let
them print it if they want to.
You save the .fig file and edit it again, or use the original .fig file
and edit it differently.
Works great. Adobe is NOT needed and neither is XP to run it. ;-)
Hugo
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 07:21:52 -0500
From: Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Editing PDF forms
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Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
>>I just checked that again and with the latest Sarge the output looks
>>super. This presumes you start out with a pdf form of some sort...
>>
>>Get xfig and transfig
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>>use: pstoedit -f "fig:-startdepth 999" <in> <out>%d.fig to generate your
>>.fig files.
>>
This generates one .fig file for each page in the pdf doc. (That's what
that %d does)
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>This looks very good, thank you Hugo. Now, I believe that eps files
>are "one page" files. What if the form has multiple pages?
>
>
So you end up with one .fig file for each page in the doc. You edit each
page the way you do by hand and create an .eps file for each also.
Hugo.
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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 20:37:13 +1000
From: Blake Swadling <blake@swadling.com>
To: Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Editing PDF forms
On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 20:29, Blake Swadling wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 22:21, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
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> > So you end up with one .fig file for each page in the doc. You edit each
> > page the way you do by hand and create an .eps file for each also.
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>
> yikes. I thought I'd give this a shot and it saved every character in
> a 3 page document as a bezier curve. I'd prefer not to have to cut
> chars from beziers. Is this a freak or have i missed something?
-ndt fixes it
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