Re: Programs to fill in pdf forms
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 04:51:51PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 01:21:29PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> | Are there any tools that will let me fill in forms in pdf?
>
> acroread
>
> | Ideally, the output would be pdf as well.
>
> The only output acroread provides is via printing. When run on a pdf
> with a form to fill in acroread reports the following :
>
> To save form data you need to have Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat
> Approval. This form can be completed and printed from Reader;
> however to save the data you need one of the viewers noted above.
>
> If you come across any others , let us know!
>
>
> (In case you didn't realize it already, printing generates PostScript
> data and it is fairly easy to partially circumvent the above and
> direct PS to a file instead of the printer. Then you'll have the
> completed form in PS format. However, naturally, that doesn't let you
> edit the form later, you would need to start over in acroread.)
Of course, the PS can then be easily be converted to PDF (using ps2pdf,
in the gs-common package). This doesn't solve the reedit problem, but it
can be useful. If you need this often, it can be useful to define a
'printer' to make pdf files
Frank
> -D
>
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