[plug] Writing into existing.pdf document

Milan Pospisil pospim at gmail.com
Fri Jul 6 20:18:00 WST 2007


On 7/6/07, W.Kenworthy  wrote:
> If its a writable pdf - designed to be filled out you can download
> adobes linux version of the reader which can do it.

This is what I have tried:
Adobe Reader
KGhost View
KPDF
No joy so far.

> I dont think xpdf/evince etc can do it.

Here are the specs:
Printing: Allowed
Document Assembly: Not Allowed
Content Copying or Extraction: Allowed
Content Extraction for Accessibility: Allowed
Commenting: Not Allowed
Filling of form fields: Allowed
Signing: Not Allowed
Creation of Temlpate Pages: Not Allowed
Submitting forms: Not Allowed
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> In some cases, I have extracted the page as an image and inserted as a
> background inage in an openoffice document and overtyped it, then
> re-exported it to pdf.  Fussy, but it works!

Hmm.. I must take a closer look at this. What I have tried so far was
to cut and paste the original document into Open Office. It did work
to a level, but I lost the company logo and some tables in due
process. Also, the original seven pages were reduced to some five
pages and a bit...
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> BillK
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