Re: dumb question about aAdobe Acrobat....

["Michael Fothergill" <mikef20000@hotmail.com>]

> From: Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: dumb question about aAdobe Acrobat....
> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:12:31 -0400
>
> On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 11:39:18PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> > On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:57:11 -0500
> > John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello John,
> >
> > > Do you actually _need_ acroread?  Xpdf isn't good enough?
> >
> > IIRC, Xpdf doesn't have the ability to do form filling.  With acroread,
> > you can fill out forms (they have to be set up to allow it, of course),
> > and then print them, already filled in.  Obviously, you can't save the
> > filled out form.
> >
> > With my cruddy handwriting, I need all the help I can get.   :-)
>
> Sounds like a crazy propriatary scheme.  Whatever happened to sending
> out the Latex of a document.  Recipients can latex it to view it, make
> changes, get it right, then email the latex back.

Nevertheless it was chosen by the UK authorities as a method of filing 
accounts electronically.
> As for printing but not saving an altered pdf, can't you print to file
> (or get your print spooler to do it) so that you have a ps of the pdf?
> Burst the ps pages apart, turn them into eps, encorporate them into your
> latex document and away you go.

I am not interested in printing it.  Just editing it and submitting it and 
filing the accounts.
It may be that I could do it with an ordinary editor....

> Adobe just had to reinvent their own wheel, convince everyone else that
> it was the only wheel around (so to speak) and make life difficult for
> us.

> Doug.

That may be in part true.  But there are a very large number of companies 
registered here and so a way of avoiding Adobe software is probably useful 
if I can figure it out and then point it out to others.....

Even if it is a slightly funny work around.

Who knows, maybe I will discover some useful information in doing this that 
you can't find  already by searching the web after all....

Or maybe not.

Regards

Michael Fothergill



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