All,
I have been asked to provide information as part of a job application. In the
first part of the process, this was done on the web. Now in this next phase, I
have been asked to provide information by filling out forms. They would prefer
to have an electronic version of this data.
Use The Gimp (Windows or Linux edition) to turn the PDF into a graphic
file - note that you need to set the resolution to at least 300dpi on
import if you want it to look OK later printed out.
Do your editing as text within a graphic file, using the graphic tool
of your choice.
Save it back out
Try http://www.pdftoword.com/. If the file is a true PDF and not an
image embedded in a PDF file, they will convert it and email the
resulting word file back to you. The resulting file can be edited in
Open Office or whatever.
BTW, every so often someone sends me a scanned document embedded
You can make the pdf form fillable using Acrobat. I'm sure other tools as
well, I am just not familiar with them.
Eric
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Mark Jarvis m.jar...@cox.net wrote:
Try http://www.pdftoword.com/. If the file is a true PDF and not an image
embedded in a PDF file, they
OpenOffice can deal with PDF files it you install the extension.
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport
HTH
Kevin
On Sep 17, 2010 10:58 AM, Eric Cope eric.c...@gmail.com wrote:
You can make the pdf form fillable using Acrobat. I'm sure other tools as
well, I am just not
thats cool!
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Kevin Fries kfri...@gmail.com wrote:
OpenOffice can deal with PDF files it you install the extension.
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport
HTH
Kevin
On Sep 17, 2010 10:58 AM, Eric Cope eric.c...@gmail.com wrote:
You
:53 AM
Subject: Re: OT - Editing a PDF file in Windoze
thats cool!
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Kevin Fries kfri...@gmail.com wrote:
OpenOffice can deal with PDF files it you install the extension.
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport
HTH
Kevin
On Sep 17, 2010 10
FYI, pdfimport for OpenOffice is in the Ubuntu repostitories though it
supposedly is for importing a .pdf to OO Draw
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Kevin Fries kfri...@gmail.com wrote:
OpenOffice can deal with PDF files it you install the extension.