Benjamin Scott wrote:
Anything else will be a hack, and not a pretty one.
However, anything else is almost always what you have to do, since forms
are designed by pencil pushers, not written by programmers.
But I suspect you have already realized all that. I just figured your
In a message dated: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 20:53:01 EDT
Benjamin Scott said:
As near as I could tell when I briefly looked into it, PDF is just some
weird, bastardized form of PostScript targeted at a specialized renderer
(i.e., Acrobat Reader). This was in the Acrobat 2.0 days, though, so things
In a message dated: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 11:03:37 EDT
Kevin D. Clark said:
Anyone remember what I'm talking about?
pageview?
Hmmm, that doesn't sound familiar, though it might be. I never
actually used it, since I thought ghostview was a better viewer, even
back then. And I've had little need
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't remember the name of the program, but SunOS used to have a PS
viewer/editor that came with OpenLook Windows. I believe this
program may have been freely available from Sun, I'm not sure.
Anyone remember what I'm talking about?
pageview?
I don't think
PDF does get you a few things, unfortunately most people do not
bother implemeting them:
Intra-document (and extra-document) links
Side bookmarks that usually have an outline of the document
Word search
Annotations (pop up notes)
The only thing I do not have working with PDF yet is annotations,
People,
This may be a FAQ.
We have some forms, distributed in .pdf format.
We would like to fill in the forms with a word processor.
Linux has pdf2ps, pdf2dsc, ps2epsi, ps2frag, ps2ascii,
but none of these gives me a file which retains the formatting,
and is readable by my word processors.
I
Is it a requirement you start with .pdf? You could do it with
DocBook XML from a web page, or use PHP's PDF functionality to do it
as well (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdf.php).
If it's a requirement the end user use Word, I'm sure Adobe has
some products they'd like to sell, or check out
In a message dated: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 15:25:50 EDT
Kevin D. Clark said:
My bias would be to use TeX/LaTeX to generate the DVI files. Some
people might chime in here and say try Lyx.
Try LyX :)
Or, if you have some way to get postscript files, you might be able to
use a Postscript-PDF distiller
In a message dated: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 15:01:02 EDT
Bayard Coolidge USG ZKO3-3/S20 said:
Answer:
Well, not exactly...
You can get a free PDF reader for Linux from Adobe (who are the
folks who own PDF). But, editing a PDF document appears to be the
key question, and that will cost money, and it's
Bob Sparks asked:
I know that some systems can read these formats, but they
need to thrash it with Microslop Word.
Answer:
Well, not exactly...
You can get a free PDF reader for Linux from Adobe (who are the
folks who own PDF). But, editing a PDF document appears to be the
key question, and
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Bayard Coolidge USG ZKO3-3/S20 said:
Bayard
Bayard Bob Sparks asked:
Bayard
Bayard I know that some systems can read these formats, but they
Bayard need to thrash it with Microslop Word.
Bayard
Bayard Answer:
Bayard
Bayard Well, not exactly...
Bayard
Bayard You can get a free
I think you're going to be out-of-luck on this one. At least with MS Word as the
target document format. It would require a postscript interpreter to generate a
Word format file - and I don't think MS has ever documented their format (the
reason I've always seen is: Use the API). Hence, no one
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
These are US government forms, which are only available as .pdf. Otherwise
I wouldn't be interested in the conversion.
I deleted your original message (Doh! Bad user!), but you say you have a
program that lets you use these forms-in-PDF-files on
I'm not sure if everyone knows this or not, and I'm not sure if its applicable
to Bob's situation, but ghostscript comes with ps2pdf - a program that converts
.ps files to .pdf files.
--Bruce
Bayard ... and it's unclear that there
Bayard is a product to create PDF documents available from
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We have some forms, distributed in .pdf format.
We would like to fill in the forms with a word processor.
Linux has pdf2ps, pdf2dsc, ps2epsi, ps2frag, ps2ascii,
but none of these gives me a file which retains the formatting,
and is readable by my word processors.
I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is it a requirement you start with .pdf? You could do it with
DocBook XML from a web page, or use PHP's PDF functionality to do it
as well (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.pdf.php).
These are US government forms, which are only
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