Dave Howorth wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote:
I am interested in inserting text into the text blocks on a PDF application form ie entering data into those little square blocks they give to write your details into.
Is there a way to convert a PDF document to a human readable format, add the required text and then re-PDF the form?
KWord will let you edit PDF files.
This sounds very interesting. I need to fill in PDF forms as well. Does kword let you do that?
I need to be able to read a PDF form, fill it in and then ideally save it for later editing, but at a minimum to be able to print it to a file in PDF format.
I haven't tried forms, but I have opened regular PDFs.
At the moment I do the task using Adobe Acrobat on a copy of Windows under VMWare. I normally use gnome so it's not so easy to test kword :(
I do have a Suse 9.2 system with kword:
$ kword -v Qt: 3.3.3 KDE: 3.3.0 KWord: 1.3.3
But when I try to open a form, it complains:
Error: PDF version 1.5 -- xpdf supports version 1.4 (continuing anyway)
When the form is opened it contains all the 'preprinted' text but just blank space where the fields to fill in should be. All the rules (lines) were also lost.
Is the current version of kword better? And can it save a PDF form?
Thanks, Dave
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