[ale] Fillable PDF forms

[Tim Watts]

You're right. Evince does that -- nice! Unfortunately, Acrobat does not
-- won't even let me print to PDF. Lost sales opportunity I guess. This
is for the general public so I can't assume a Linux audience.


On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 15:34 -0400, John Pilman wrote:
> Interesting.  I tried this on computer A and it did just what you said
> you wanted.  But you made me doubt, so I tried it on computer B, and
> it didn't seem to work.  I'll check on the details later, ,but for now
> I can say:
> I was able to create a form in OpenOffice
> Save as a PDF
> Open the pdf with the standard document reader provided with Ubuntu 10.10
> fill in the form
> save the filled in form
> I re-opened the saved form and it was still filled in.
> 
> I'll send you the sample files off list if you would like.
> 
> ...John
> 
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Tim Watts <tim at cliftonfarm.org> wrote:
> > Thanks John. That gives me about 60% of what I need. Ideally, they
> > should be able to fill it in and SAVE it. May have to punt on that but
> > I'll keep looking.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 14:50 -0400, 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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