[ale] Fillable PDF forms

[Scott Castaline]

On 08/16/2011 08:05 PM, planas wrote:
> Hi
>     Try Okular, on a blank IRS form it found forms and displayed them 
> for editting
>
> 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  <mailto: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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> Jay Lozier
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I concur with Jay. Okular (ver 0.12.5) on F 15 does the trick, had to 
fill out a finance application that was a PDF form and it worked like a 
charm. You can install on Gnome DE even though it is a KDE app.