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 > > -- > Q: What is the difference betwee open-source and commercial software? > A: If you have a problem with commercial software you can call a phone > number and they will tell you it might be solved in a future version. > For open-source sofware there isn't a phone number to call, but you > get the solution within a day. > > http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
