Re: more .pdf -- why not?
This is not a particularly elegant solution, but it's one way to get it done. GIMP has the ability to import postscript files and a text tool which you could use to complete the forms. The major drawback is that the end result is a binary graphic file. I can't remember where, but sometime during this past year I was reading a file about postscript and PDF's which explained that it was very difficult to convert a PDF file back into a formatted text file. I wish I could explain why, but my brain stored the conclusion and quickly forgot all the detail. mike On Monday 20 October 2003 02:36 pm, you wrote: first, in answer to my own question having to do with cutting a few pages out od a pdf file and saving them as a separate pdf file, it finally got done though, sadly, by a friend who was running a windows app which converted the postscript file i got from printing those pages to a file. (the winapp did, though, make it into a 1.6-meg pdf, which is a little excessive.) now i'm seeking to do something else. the state of connecticut offers all its court forms as .pdfs. which may be printed out and filled out by hand or -- ugh -- typewriter. i do not need to preserve these as .pdfs, but i would like to import them into something such that i can fill them out on the computer prior to printing and then, of course, save them. this would, ideally, allow them to simply be imported into a word processor or something like it. i know of no linux application which allows this, however. any ideas? (for those who might be interested as to why i need to do all this, i draw your attention to the october 27 issue of national review, page 44, an essay by me.) -- Debian 'Sarge': Registered Linux User #241964 More laws, less justice. -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroca, 42 BC ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: A real Gentoo Nugget!
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 05:36:53 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 23:01:08 -0400 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just found this in the Gentoo Portage Tree and... well... I'm busting at the seams to share what I found The Linux Gazette is there! Yeah, yeah... I know... but I'm a lovable geek! Just emerge linux-gazette for the latest edition or linux-gazette-all for the whole kit-n-kabootle... And the benefit of emerging this would be? Since I can browse this anytime, why do I need it on my harddrive? -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: 'smbmount' hangs
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 20:31:17 -0400 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 20 October 2003 07:37 pm, Michael Hipp wrote: Tim Wunder wrote: I've seen something similar to this on comp.protocols.smb, IIRC Yes, check out: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=enlr=ie=UTF-8threadm=9Xb4b.38159%24 yg.16583965%40news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.netrnum=2prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dfstab%2Bgr oup:comp.protocols.smb%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dcomp.proto cols.smb%26selm%3D9Xb4b.38159%2524yg.16583965%2540news4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net% 26rnum%3D2 Someone had a similar issue with smb mounts in the fstab file and someone else posted a suitable workaround. Thanks. That seems to be a serviceable workaround, if a bit inelegant. Some more searching based on the lead you gave led me to a chap who said the answer is to a recompile a newer kernel (something like 2.4.21 or better). Bleah. That's too much work. If you ever get around to compiling a new kernel... check out the 2.60 series. Quite nice. Is compiling a kernel more work that screwing around with apps that don't work properly on an older kernel? Second vote for 2.6 kernels. Nothing special, but no bugs have I found in 3 months. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: 'smbmount' hangs
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 11:34:31 -0600 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 20:31:17 -0400 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Second vote for 2.6 kernels. Nothing special, but no bugs have I found in 3 months. Well, 2.6.0-test8 seems to run extremely well and very fast, even on an old Pentium I 133MHz. Anyone else notice the _major_ facelift and rearranging done to the configure? Makes more sense, but I'm glad the first time or two through I used oldconfig. Ciao, David A. Bandel -- Focus on the dream, not the competition. Nemesis Racing Team motto GPG key autoresponder: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: A real Gentoo Nugget!
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 01:29 pm, Collins Richey wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 05:36:53 -0500 David A. Bandel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 23:01:08 -0400 Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just found this in the Gentoo Portage Tree and... well... I'm busting at the seams to share what I found The Linux Gazette is there! Yeah, yeah... I know... but I'm a lovable geek! Just emerge linux-gazette for the latest edition or linux-gazette-all for the whole kit-n-kabootle... And the benefit of emerging this would be? Since I can browse this anytime, why do I need it on my harddrive? Let's say you travle from time to time... while you are on the road/plane... your laptop could have the best possible reading for a simple emerge... period. :') ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: more .pdf -- why not?
I caught this off a thread on the kde-linux mailing list, I don't know if it will help or not, just thought I'd pass it along. Jim --- Re: [kde-linux] How to type over PDF documents in Linux? From: Gordon Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, is there an application to type over the blank fields on PDF documents? I would like to type over the blank fields of PDF documents and then print them. Here are two documents of interest. The first is from the OpenOffice Forum http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2686highlight= Toward the end of the thread there's mention of KWord becoming able to do this. The KWord filter status page is here... http://www.koffice.org/filters/1.2/ Gord --- On Monday 20 October 2003 07:36 pm, dep wrote: first, in answer to my own question having to do with cutting a few pages out od a pdf file and saving them as a separate pdf file, it finally got done though, sadly, by a friend who was running a windows app which converted the postscript file i got from printing those pages to a file. (the winapp did, though, make it into a 1.6-meg pdf, which is a little excessive.) now i'm seeking to do something else. the state of connecticut offers all its court forms as .pdfs. which may be printed out and filled out by hand or -- ugh -- typewriter. i do not need to preserve these as .pdfs, but i would like to import them into something such that i can fill them out on the computer prior to printing and then, of course, save them. this would, ideally, allow them to simply be imported into a word processor or something like it. i know of no linux application which allows this, however. any ideas? (for those who might be interested as to why i need to do all this, i draw your attention to the october 27 issue of national review, page 44, an essay by me.) -- 8:01pm up 34 days, 13:01, 3 users, load average: 0.07, 0.08, 0.04 Running Mandrake 9.0 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: more .pdf -- why not?
quoth James Conner: | I caught this off a thread on the kde-linux mailing list, I don't | know if it will help or not, just thought I'd pass it along. thanks. what i was looking for was, maybe, something like we used to have in the describe word processor. it would allow you to pick any of several varieties of files -- .pdf was not, to my recollection, among them -- and use them as stationery. this meant that in place of the white background there would be, both onscreen and in the printout, the document as a background. the background document wasn't altered or screened in any way; black would still be black. then one entered text as if the stationery were not there at all. with such an arrangement, one could move the cursor to the appropriate places, enter text, and then, when printing, get both the entered text and the background -- in my hypothetical, the .pdf file. from that standpoint, doing .pdf forms would be fairly straightforward. but, alas, i have found no way to make it happen. which doesn't at the moment matter -- i filled out the forms on a typewriter, not being able to find any ink here late at night for my fountain pen. -- dep Writing takes no time. It's finding something to say that takes forever. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: more .pdf -- why not?
Here's a link to add to it. It's for KOffice 1.3. More on the status of importing .pdf files. http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/koffice/filters/kword/pdf/status.html?content-type=text/html#import Jim On Tuesday 21 October 2003 08:22 pm, James Conner wrote: I caught this off a thread on the kde-linux mailing list, I don't know if it will help or not, just thought I'd pass it along. Jim -- 8:01pm up 34 days, 13:01, 3 users, load average: 0.07, 0.08, 0.04 Running Mandrake 9.0 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: glibc question
Quoth Tony Alfrey: Yes, I read the SXS. My principle question is . . . if I have applications complied earlier against glibc-2.2.1 and I install glibc-2.2.4, will the applications now crash? No. Going the other way -- apps compiled against 2.2.4 running on a 2.2.1 system -- might not run, though. Kurt -- A bird in the bush usually has a friend in there with him. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Gentoo's emerge ported to Slackware 9.1
Believe it or not! It's called Emerde... http://freshmeat.net/projects/emerde/?topic_id=41%2C147%2C861 I've downloaded it and will try it out a bit later this week. -- Myles Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] Slackware-9.1 + XFce 4.0.0 + Sylpheed-0.9.6claws -- Alberta Mirror for Linux-SxS.org http://linux-sxs.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Gentoo's emerge ported to Slackware 9.1
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 21:39:10 -0600 Myles Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Believe it or not! It's called Emerde... http://freshmeat.net/projects/emerde/?topic_id=41%2C147%2C861 I've downloaded it and will try it out a bit later this week. Our French friends might be offended! -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
