Hi, > (f29) > I need something, preferably from one of the usual repos (so I can > easily install it with dnf), that I can use to fill in a pdf > form. I can view the form just fine, but nothing seems to have > functionality for me to fill it in. I did not see anything in > "dnfdragora".
Having never dealt with any such forms, I had a quick look, and found this example, which suggests Open Office can create them: http://foersom.com/net/HowTo/data/OoPdfFormExample.pdf Saved it, loaded it in Atril document viewer (in Mate), filled in some details, then saved a copy of the document. I opened that copy, and it displays all the details that I typed in. What I don't know about PDF forms is: Are they just intended to print out a page like you've filled it in, or are they supposed to be machine processable to extract your typed-in data? (Which seems a very dumb requirement in this modern online world, with a couple of decades of HTML forms already fulfilling that purpose.) And if the latter is true (of a program being able to parse out your PDF form data), does what I tried work fully? -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 4.16.11-100.fc26.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 22 20:02:12 UTC 2018 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. There is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. less is more when playing with your cat... _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
