[ale] Fillable PDF forms

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Tue Aug 16 15:46:48 EDT 2011


I have evince 3.0.2 and it will do form fill in (tested with Ga IRS pdf but
can't save as that's a GA IRS pdf stupid.)

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Stephen R. Blevins <
stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com> wrote:

> All well and good for creating such PDF forms.  Is there an open source
> *reader* that I can use to read and complete such forms.  evince does
> not seem to have such a capability.
>
> Stephen R. Blevins
> stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com
>
> On 08/16/2011 02:50 PM, John Pilman wrote:
> > OpenOffice will do this.
> >
> http://danilop.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/how-to-create-pdf-forms-with-openoffice/
> >
> > ...John
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:06 PM, Tim Watts<tim at cliftonfarm.org>  wrote:
> >> Anyone know of an open source Linux tool to create fillable PDF forms
> >> from a saved document (i.e. a free basic equivalent of Adobe Designer)?
> >>
> >> I've got a Word doc with an application form. They want people to be
> >> able to fill it in and email it to them.
> >>
> >>
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