>>>>> "Brian" == abiword <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Brian> Many many times, I have gotten a PDF form that I have had to Brian> fill in. I always have to resort to printing the form out and Brian> filling it in by hand with a pen. This sucks. I print these to a postscript file, use gv to determine the coordinates where strings should be printed (there is a text field under the File menu in gv's gui that shows the cursor's coordinates) and then add in x y moveto (string) show lines just before the showpage for each line. There are limitations to this. It is hard to get things to work if you want to embed a font, so I always use a font available w/o embedding. (My current printer requires ghostscript, so I can use any font in gs's Fontmap. Else it'd have to be a font dl'ed to the printer.) Here is an example. The proginal ps file produced by acroread had the page end with: PDFVars/TermAll get exec end end userdict /pgsave get restore showpage %%PageTrailer %%EndPage I changed that part to: PDFVars/TermAll get exec end end userdict /pgsave get restore /Times-Roman findfont 10 scalefont setfont 237 701 moveto (x) show 50 500 moveto (x) show 66 455 moveto (x) show 56 128 moveto (James H. Cloos, Jr.) show showpage %%PageTrailer %%EndPage to x three checkboxes and put my name on a line. That pattern should provide enough info on how to create something to automate the task. Note that the above is independent of whether acrobat was used to make the pdf into a fill-out pdf, and should work with any pdf-to-ps output. -JimC ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
