Hi: I have a pdf file that needs to be "filled out" and returned. How do I do that? One option, of course, is to spend big bucks for Adobe software, right? Are there obvious Open Source alternatives? HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Tom
Tom, If the pdf document was formated correctly you should be able to use Adobe's Acrobat reader to fill it out and save it. If not I think that gimp has a pdf document filter available for it and you could use that. Austin On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 07:10:23PM -0800, tom poe wrote:
Hi: I have a pdf file that needs to be "filled out" and returned. How do I do that? One option, of course, is to spend big bucks for Adobe software, right? Are there obvious Open Source alternatives? HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Tom --
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On Wednesday 26 December 2001 19:20, Austin Morgan wrote:
Tom, If the pdf document was formated correctly you should be able to use Adobe's Acrobat reader to fill it out and save it. If not I think that gimp has a pdf document filter available for it and you could use that.
Austin
Hi, Austin: I think you hit the nail on the head, with the phrase, " If the pdf document was formatted correctly - - -". Somehow, I think Adobe has gummed up the government nonsense, so this will be a big pain in the bu%^&. I am seeing more and more solicitations using Adobe PDF, with the added feature of not being able to save as on download with a new name, and being able to edit directly. I see references to programs that go from ps2pdf, but nothing that gives me a workaround. I'm using Gimp1.2, but no pdf capability. Do you have Gimp1.3? Happy Holidays! Tom
Tom, No, but I do have the ps plugin. This allows the opening and editing of ps eps and pdf documents (nothing too fancy though). Austin On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 07:57:23PM -0800, tom poe wrote:
On Wednesday 26 December 2001 19:20, Austin Morgan wrote:
Tom, If the pdf document was formated correctly you should be able to use Adobe's Acrobat reader to fill it out and save it. If not I think that gimp has a pdf document filter available for it and you could use that.
Austin
Hi, Austin: I think you hit the nail on the head, with the phrase, " If the pdf document was formatted correctly - - -". Somehow, I think Adobe has gummed up the government nonsense, so this will be a big pain in the bu%^&.
I am seeing more and more solicitations using Adobe PDF, with the added feature of not being able to save as on download with a new name, and being able to edit directly. I see references to programs that go from ps2pdf, but nothing that gives me a workaround. I'm using Gimp1.2, but no pdf capability. Do you have Gimp1.3? Happy Holidays! Tom --
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On Wednesday 26 December 2001 19:20, Austin Morgan wrote:
Tom, If the pdf document was formated correctly you should be able to use Adobe's Acrobat reader to fill it out and save it. If not I think that gimp has a pdf document filter available for it and you could use that.
Austin
Hi: Well, spent some time trying to grasp the fundamental concept, here. At this point, it looks like a glooomy picture to me. We have a whole lot of hype in the Google search "converting pdf" keywords search. The hype is centered around a "golly, gee, let's use pdf on the web so our documents look exactly like we want them to look.". Dangerous stuff, eh? The point is, old Acrobatobe files don't work with the newer Readers. No backward compatibility! Sound faM$liar? The point is, if you add Acrobatobe's font games to the mix - have you seen that one? The one where you can't see the locked text, unless you "belong" to the right club? In other words, some text is available, but the good stuff is reserved for paying customers - or, better, yet, how about Kgv's error message, "KGhostview can only load Postscript(.ps, .eps), and Portable Document Format(.pdf) files." Example: http://www.eps.gov/spg/HHS/NIH/NHLBI/RFP-NHLBI-HO-02-10/listing.html Try downloading [save under new name] and viewing it. This is the stuff pure legacy data is all about. Bad stuff! I can't imagine what the heavy academic researchers must be going through, already. Well, better brace for OCR capability. Anyone have a suggestion? In the meantime, I'll wander through the archives. Oh, and I guess we can look forward to some really good government contracts for converting legacy pdf files to xml in the future, eh? HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Tom
tom poe wrote:
Hi: I have a pdf file that needs to be "filled out" and returned. How do I do that? One option, of course, is to spend big bucks for Adobe software, right? Are there obvious Open Source alternatives? HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
The answer may seem dumb, but "print it out, sign it, then mail it in". If you want to return it electronically, scan it back in after you sign it. Maybe you could open it in acroread, then capture it with gimp screen capture, make a new gimp file with your "signature" and paste it onto the screen capture. Then email the gimp graphic back, or fax it back.
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