On 21/10/2008 21:03, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
2008/10/21 NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 10/21/2008 08:50 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
2008/10/20 NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Nor do I think you will be able to with the extension; I don't think
it's meant for that.
So is there something out there, that IS meant for that? I guess there is
no
Adobe Acrobat for Linux, is there? And it's not free anyway…
You can use pdfedit... however it's pretty complicated and I've never
fully mastered how to use it properly.
I just installed pdfedit 0.3.2 from the Ubuntu repositories and I just can't
find out how to fill in the form in the file I linked to earlier. It seems
like the program is more supposed to edit the actual form rather than
accepting me filling it in and then save it. That is, I can add and delete
cjeck boxes (for example) but I can not check/uncheck them… I know, this is
a bit OT now, but I started the thread, so I'm it's owner… ;)
Just to be clear, what I currently want to do is this:
- I have a PDF that is some kind of a form, see the file I attached to
the first message of this thread or click
here<http://www.konsumentverket.se/Documents/bilar/kopekontrakt_bilar.pdf>
.
- I want to enter things in most of its text fields and check some check
boxes in the PDF and then save it like that. Eventually I might even want to
print it out.
Obviously I can't do this with the PDF import extension for OpenOffice.org
3. My thought was to convert the PDF to an ODF, then I should be able to do
whatever I like with it, but obviously I couldn't.
Maybe the question is whether the extension is even supposed to do this, but
I can't see why not. The more relevant features, the better, right?
J.R.
When I have to fill out forms like this (for me US tax forms are a good
example), I open the form in Adobe Reader (8), fill out the form, and
then print it to a cups-pdf virtual printer. That saves the filled out
form in PDF. I've found that to me _much_ easier than trying to use
PDFEdit and other such pdf editors (other than actual Adobe Acrobat of
course).
Well, that's probably also what I would do, until I find a better way.
The
disadvantage is (or isn't it?) that if I want to change something a few
days
later, maybe a misspelling or something, I have to open the empty
original
and fill everything in all over again, hopefully right this time… If the
extension worked perfectly (maybe it will some day), I would just convert
it
to something else, then go from there. If it something like the document
I
attached earlier, I would probably save it as a template. That was my
idea
anyway.
J.R.
On Windows you should be able to do the same by printing the
filled out form to PDFCreator.
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I went to the link using Firefox 3.0.3 on Win XP Pro. The browser has
the PDF Download extension 2.0.0.0 installed. The [linked-to] file opens
in the PDF viewer. Near the top of the viewer's window is a message:
"Please fill out the following form. You cannot save data typed into
this form. Please print your completed form if you would like a copy for
your records".
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