On Sunday 12 August 2007, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2007-08-11 at 22:41 -0400, BandiPat wrote:
Have you tried the newer 1.6.3 Koffice for this? I just got a new build the other day, loaded a PDF file in full editable form into KWord and of course, you can save as PDF from KWord or print to pdf.
I assume you mean kword. Yes, kword can open PDF, and modify them, but that's not the intention. The intention is to open a PDF Form as in Acroread, where you can only fill the fields the author left for filling, and not being able to touch anything else. There is a special version of acroread that allows saving the data: that's what I want, in Linux, and free.
In fact, I just opened a test PDF in kword and the text flow was broken. That would be unacceptable if I were to submit such a for to the administration.
I just tried to open one of their official forms and it took two..three minutes to open it. These things include calculations and possibly javascript. When it finished opening it, the appearance is very far from the correct one. ************* Yes, you're right, if you are just wanting to "fill" out the form and resave as PDF, kword would be overkill, but it is good to know we have something that can now edit a pdf easily.
Also, check out "cups-pdf", which allows you to create a virtual printer for direct saving/printing to a very good pdf file!
I see no cups-pdf in opensuse 10.2. Is it new in 10.3, perhaps? :-?
I have my ways to print to pdf, but that wasn't my exact question, anyway.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R. ========== I believe this would be your easiest solution to your problem. Fill out the form in acroread, then print it to pdf using the cups-pdf virtual printer. Simple and straight forward. I don't remember the mirror for cups-pdf, but remember seeing someone here mention it in another thread. I'm using Zenwalk Linux right now, so am not keeping up with all of SuSE's mirrors & programs so much.
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