Fonts

2016-02-23 Thread Alan Cliffe
Is there any way to add a font to the menu? I know there are sites where you can download fonts, but I don't know how you would incorporate a downloaded font into Open Office, or whether it's possible.

Re: how to import scanned page into Open Office and edit it.

2016-02-23 Thread Allen Schaaf
Hi Robert, Take a look at FreeOCR. It will convert it to text but I do not recommend this. The way I do it is use FreeOCR to make a PDF and then I use my old version (6.0) Adobe Acrobat to fill out the form. There are other PDF programs that will do this as well, just use Startpage.com (a pri

Re: Help with PDF forms

2016-02-23 Thread Brian Barker
At 09:06 23/02/2016 -0800, Craig Russell wrote: I'm trying to create a PDF form ... But the form fields don't behave the way I want them to. I'd like the user to click in a form field and type, with the text showing up right there in place. Instead, the text typed in shows up either a few poin

Re: how to import scanned page into Open Office and edit it.

2016-02-23 Thread Robert Carney
Thanks, Brian. I did some research via Google search. Apparently there exist several software items that claim to be able to do this. I have not tried any of them. I was even told that OneNote that comes with Microsoft Office would do it. Don't have office. The version of OneNote that comes with Wi

Re: how to import scanned page into Open Office and edit it.

2016-02-23 Thread Brian Barker
At 15:19 23/02/2016 -0800, Robert Carney wrote: I have a form that has blanks for me to fill in. I would like to scan the form, import it into Open Office and fill in the blanks. If you scan a hard copy, you have a picture of the document and not anything which can be edited as text. You have

how to import scanned page into Open Office and edit it.

2016-02-23 Thread Robert Carney
I have a form that has blanks for me to fill in. I would like to scan the form, import it into Open Office and fill in the blanks. What do I need to do? Any help appreciated. -- Robert L. Carney rlcarney5...@gmail.com

Re: Help with PDF forms

2016-02-23 Thread Julian Thomas
> On Feb 23, 2016, at 12:06, Craig Russell wrote: > > I’ve attached my attempt to make it possible for users to fill in the blanks. > But the form fields don’t behave the way I want them to. I’d like the user to > click in a form field and type, with the text showing up right there in place. >

Re: Help with PDF forms

2016-02-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Andrea Pescetti wrote: Craig Russell wrote: the form fields don’t behave the way I want them to. your document works for me. See a screenshot of a filled-out form at http://home.apache.org/~pescetti/tmp/2016-02/screenshot-pdf-form.png (I will leave it online for a few days). I realize I was m

Re: Help with PDF forms

2016-02-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Craig Russell wrote: the form fields don’t behave the way I want them to. Hello Craig, your document works for me. See a screenshot of a filled-out form at http://home.apache.org/~pescetti/tmp/2016-02/screenshot-pdf-form.png (I will leave it online for a few days). This was done with the docum

Help with PDF forms

2016-02-23 Thread Craig Russell
Hi, I’m trying to create a PDF form for this document: http://www.apache.org/licenses/software-grant.txt I’ve attached my attempt to make it possible for users to fill in the blanks. But the form fields don’t behave the way I want them to. I’d like the user to click in a form field and type, w