By the way . . .
I have to send various PDF forms to my sons in the USA and Germany with
my signature on the original PDF.
I open the PDF in GIMP, add a layer to the relevant page, and overlay a
PNG of my signature
(I signed my name using my Wacom tablet into GIMP and extracted the pen
colours from the
white background to make a PNG image of my signature surrounded by
transparency), then export the
page as a PDF.
My sons then print out the PDFs with my signature on them where they are.
Of course this has nothing whatsoever to do with LiveCode.
Richmond.
On 3/3/17 5:24 pm, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote:
On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 5:02 PM, Alejandro Tejada via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
I have used LiveCode (then MetaCard) to write content
in PDF templates, so I do not understand the requirement
that file should have no changes.
The file I upload needs to be indistinguishable from the pdf the court
issues to fill in at any arbitrary density.
At the moment, I'm simply recreating by pasting into fields. What *should* be
happening is placing fields over an eps made from the court's own pdf.
This particular form was the breaking point:
http://www.nvb.uscourts.gov/downloads/mmm/forms/NVB105-3_OrderDebtorsMtnReferraltoMMM.pdf
I have created paragraph by paragraph, but I now have a clerk insisting
that it be this exact pdf--so I have to go back to my original plan. With
livecode, this *should* happen by turning it into page by page eps's,
putting each on a card, and laying fields over them, and then "printing" to
a pdf file.
Unfortunately, due to the lack of eps support, the only possible way is to
make png's, put the fields in front of those, delete the png when printing,
and then use shell tools (pdftk, pdfjar, pdftools, etc.) to overlay each
page of my livecode output onto the form pdf.
This is fairly straightforward on unix (mac, linux). However, I need to
insure that the third party software is installed, and for good measure,
support at least two ways of doing it.
Windows? beats me.
iOS? I'd be shocked if the tools are there. I'd have to license the code.
android? beats me again.
But all in all, I've lost "write once".
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