On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 11:33:27PM +0100, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
> 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
Just a side note: If the edits required are small (say a spelling
error), then editing the Postscript file before creating the PDF file is
quite possible as Postscript is just another text file.
Regards,
Dean
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