Hi, 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? I do not have a printer and therefore would need to save the document to a USB stick, visit a friend's printer and print the necessary form, fill it in and then fax it. It would be SO much easier if I could edit the relevant fields, insert an image of my signature, re PDF the document, and then email it. I was thinking along the lines of reverse 'engineering' ie we can currently do OOo to PDF, why not a PDF to OOo with limited functionality? -- ======================================================================== Currently using SuSE 9.2 Professional with KDE and Mozilla 1.7.2 Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org ======================================================================== -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote:
Hi,
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?
I do not have a printer and therefore would need to save the document to a USB stick, visit a friend's printer and print the necessary form, fill it in and then fax it. It would be SO much easier if I could edit the relevant fields, insert an image of my signature, re PDF the document, and then email it.
I was thinking along the lines of reverse 'engineering' ie we can currently do OOo to PDF, why not a PDF to OOo with limited functionality?
KWord will let you edit PDF files. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
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. 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 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
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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Thanks all, but there are still some questions. James Knott wrote:
Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote:
Hi,
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?
I do not have a printer and therefore would need to save the document to a USB stick, visit a friend's printer and print the necessary form, fill it in and then fax it. It would be SO much easier if I could edit the relevant fields, insert an image of my signature, re PDF the document, and then email it.
I was thinking along the lines of reverse 'engineering' ie we can currently do OOo to PDF, why not a PDF to OOo with limited functionality?
KWord will let you edit PDF files. Whilat KWord might be able to edit PDF's can it sldo recreate them, I would assume so? It seems a little bit of a waste to have KWord just to edit PDF's esp since I use OOo as my main 'Office' application.
Could convertig the file to snother format via the cli enable me to edit the little square blocks on the original PDF form? I have seen postscript and PDF sometimes mentioned together. Would converting the file to postscript, editing in OOo and then remaking the PDF not work? How would one convert a PDF to a postscript file if the above is possible? -- ======================================================================== Currently using SuSE 9.2 Professional with KDE and Mozilla 1.7.2 Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org ======================================================================== -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
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Dave Howorth
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Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
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James Knott