Completing Forms In .pdf Format

[Nigel Henry]

On Monday 05 May 2008 10:43, O. Sinclair wrote:
> Graham Todd wrote:
> > On Sun, 4 May 2008 19:47:52 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> > Earl Violet <ejviolet at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>  don't really know so this is just a suggestion, but will the KDE
> >> word processor handle that?
> >>
> >> Earl
> >
> > I guess by the "KDE word processor" you mean OpenOffice.
> >
> > My friend has OpenOffice, KOffice, and Abiword installed, but they won't
> > accept .pdf files and allow them to have any text added, so its not an
> > option.
> >
> > On the Acroread 7 front - I thought I might have had a copy of the
> > package, but no such luck.  On reflection wouldn't Acroread (Acrobat
> > Reader) be able to read files only? KPDF does that...or is there a CLI
> > for KPDF I've missed?
> >
> > Or is there a package which will accept .pdf files and allow you then
> > to add text to those files......?
>
> There is a PDFEdit software in the repos (I think I installed from the
> repos) and you can find it here:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit
> I have not really done much with it but this might be what you need.
> Adobe Reader normally just reads but I think if the pdf is DESIGNED as a
> form it will allow input.

Thats a nice little app. I've just looked on Archlinux, that's booted up at 
the mo, and it was in the repo. Loaded up my Qtractor user manual.pdf into 
it, and added a bit of text to a page. Really easy to use, and just like 
using any other text editor.

Thanks.

Nigel.