On Sunday 30 April 2006 11:38, Morten Langlo wrote: > l?r, 29 apr, 2006, 11:35:17 +0100, skrev David Goodenough: > > I have just gone through the process of moving the registered office of > > my company, and the form (in the UK a form 287) is available as a PDF. > > But presumably in order to make sure that I do not change the form it is > > password locked. > > > > The instructions with this form say that the boxes should either be > > filled in typescript or bold black capitals. My hand writing, even my > > block capitals has never been wonderful (sometimes I can not read my own > > handwriting), so I would rather use typescript, but I no longer possess a > > typewriter. > > > > I could spend time trying to line up a document produced using either > > something like Scribus or a word processor, but that would be easier > > if I could include the PDF as a background, then I could put frames > > over each box and type in the values. This would then also mean > > that I could print the PDF and my answers in one go, rather than > > having to line the answers to a sheet on which I had previously > > printed the form. > > > > Is this possible with Scribus (the PDF is not in a format that Scribus > > will open as a document), or could it be added easily? > > > > David > > Why not just fill in the form with acroread 7.0.1 for Linux > and then print the it? Because it is not a "PDF Form", it is just a form that was designed using PDF for printing. If it was a "PDF Form" I could use PDFtk to fill it in. Actually it could be a "PDF Form", but PDFTk says it is password locked so it can not do anything with it.
David > > Morten
