--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Many many times, I have gotten a PDF form that I > have had to fill in. > I always have to resort to printing the form out and > filling it in by > hand with a pen. This sucks. > > I am wondering, what is the feasibility of something > like Abiword > "rendering" (using ghostscript, acrobat, xpdf, > whatever) the PDF and > allowing the user to "type on top" of it? > > The "cat's ass" would be to print the PDF and the > text typed on top of > it all in one shot, but even if Abiword just printed > the added text so > that a page had to be printed twice (once to put the > PDF on it and the > second time to put the text on top of the PDF), that > would be > sufficient. > > I just want to be able to do the "word processor" > equivillent of > putting a printed form into a typewriter and typing > onto it. > > Thots?
This is called form-filling, and the only tool I know of the currently handles this (from a user perspective) is Adobe Acrobat. There are other tools out there that can fill in forms, such as the FDFTk, iText, FDFMerge. These are generally command-line tools or libraries. At the moment these are your only alternatives. Importing PDF will be no small feat. Your easiest solution may be to continue using the printer + a pen. Dom __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
