Edit a .ps file ? OT
Hello SuSE people, I downloaded a form that was created as a pdf. Then converted it to post script. Views fine in ghostview. I want to fill out the form, save it in any kind of format and then print it. Can't seem to figure out how to edit (fill out) the form with ghostscript. Is it just like pdf and am unable to do anything with it? Is it possible? If so, how please? Bob S.
Hello, On Jul 26 22:26 B. Stia wrote (shortened):
I downloaded a form that was created as a pdf. Then converted it to post script. Views fine in ghostview. I want to fill out the form, save it in any kind of format and then print it.
Why don't you use the Adobe Reader (acroread) to fill out the form in its original PDF format? See "rpm -qi acroread".
Can't seem to figure out how to edit (fill out) the form with ghostscript.
Ghostscript cannot do this. Ghostscript is a PoststScript interpreter, not a PoststScript editor. PoststScript does not support the idea of filling out forma at all. It is PDF which supports this and therefore the form was PDF. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/
B. Stia wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
I downloaded a form that was created as a pdf. Then converted it to post script. Views fine in ghostview. I want to fill out the form, save it in any kind of format and then print it.
Can't seem to figure out how to edit (fill out) the form with ghostscript. Is it just like pdf and am unable to do anything with it? Is it possible? If so, how please?
I don't know if it will do what you want, but Kword will edit PDF files.
On Tuesday 26 July 2005 10:26 pm, B. Stia wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
I downloaded a form that was created as a pdf. Then converted it to post script. Views fine in ghostview. I want to fill out the form, save it in any kind of format and then print it.
Can't seem to figure out how to edit (fill out) the form with ghostscript. Is it just like pdf and am unable to do anything with it? Is it possible? If so, how please?
Bob S. ==========
What version of Acrobat reader are you using? Have you updated to version 7.x yet?
On 7/27/05, James Knott <james.knott@rogers.com> wrote:
BandiPat wrote:
What version of Acrobat reader are you using? Have you updated to version 7.x yet?
How does anyone edit anything with Adobe Reader. I have version 7 here.
Actually, you _can_ _not_ edit with the reader. What you can do, is to fill forms, if they are present in the proper way in the document - i.e. as fillable. And even then (at least with the windows version in the past - 5.0), you can not save the result. You can only print it. If this is just some form, which is drawn in some other app, and then converted to pdf, then the reader is of no help. But, gimp can open .ps and pdf files. So after you import it there, you can add text on the appropriate places. If you find gimp inconvenient for such a job, you may take a look at inkscape <http://www.inkscape.org/>. As vector drawing program, you may have better results. Cheers Sunny -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)
James Knott wrote:
How does anyone edit anything with Adobe Reader. I have version 7 here.
Usually you can't edit, but some PDF forms are created that can be filled out right in Adobe Reader. I have filled out some government forms (like tax requests) this way. James W
On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 12:12 -0400, James Knott wrote:
BandiPat wrote:
What version of Acrobat reader are you using? Have you updated to version 7.x yet?
How does anyone edit anything with Adobe Reader. I have version 7 here.
I don't believe it will let you "edit" the document but it may let you fill out a pdf that is a form. I don't have onr to test with. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
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