Re: editing pdf files

[richard <richard.bown@blueyonder.co.uk>]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:44:14 +0100
Siard <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl> wrote:

> hvw59601:
> > Siard wrote:
> > > hvw59601 wrote:
> > > > and www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ?
> > > 
> > > Those are PDFs with forms. On second thought, that's probably what
> > > OP meant. But it wasn't understood as such by the other posters
> > > either.
> > 
> > And I also misinterpreted OP's question. Sorry.
> 
> ??  You're the only one that interpreted OP's question well.
> Evince cannot edit a PDF the usual way, but it _can_ fill out PDF forms,
> or at least it looks like it can.
> So filling out PDF forms is what OP was referring to when talking about
> 'editing' PDFs.
> 
> Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository.
> I have version 9.4.6, but odd enough it does not work.  ??
> 
> 

Hi Evince only looks like it can be used for forms.
You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the form
was blank.
Always worth checking a file exported as a pdf, is what you think you want.
Xpdf tells the truth, but its only a reader.

Richard