[plug] Writing into existing.pdf document

Milan Pospisil pospim at gmail.com
Fri Jul 6 22:24:55 WST 2007


On 7/6/07, Gavin Chester wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 20:18 +0800, Milan Pospisil wrote:
> > 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.
> >
>
> Funnily enough, this has come up on this list before. There must be an
> archive somewhere ... ;-)

Point taken; found some interesting reading there...

>
> I have also once searched this issue on google and the answer is there
> too. The simple answer is in an app that nearly every linux user already
> has is: gimp.

OK, Gimp opens it no worries. And with a little bit of good will I
should be able to process it further and then transfer it into Open
Office :-P

>Other than that I believe scribus is good for the purpose.
> As noted before, you open the pdf as an image and write over the top of
> it in the appropriate place. Save it as ps then do ps2pdf. As said
> before, it's fussy to do, but possible if you really have to.
>
> Of course, they're expecting you to print, write and post off the form.
> You could also print, write and scan to pdf, or you could do it the hard
> way and wow them with your expertise if they're even going to appreciate
> it ;-)
>
> Gavin
>

 Thanks Gavin and Bill for your help
                                                          MP

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