On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
I had, in the past, a .pdf reader that also permitted me to fill in some information, when I received a .pdf file.
I have KPDF installed, but that seems to only have Reader capability.
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Received a contract via email and I would like to add some information and send it back via email.
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The pdfedit package did the trick for me. This is probably "overkill", but_it_just_works :-)
Adobe Reader is only a "reader" as I assumed it would be. Some PDF readers can also fill in forms, do editing, etc., however not Adobe Reader.
Another solution is to use a free online service, such as http://www.pdfescape.com/ and upload the file, fill in the form and/or edit the file, and then download it again.
Possibly this thread will help someone else. Thank you, again, to everyone who replied and provided information and ideas! Lanny
Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
I had, in the past, a .pdf reader that also permitted me to fill in some information, when I received a .pdf file.
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Adobe Reader is only a "reader" as I assumed it would be. Some PDF readers can also fill in forms, do editing, etc., however not Adobe Reader.
<snip> I don't know what's wrong, other than the possibility that wherever you got the form, they did *not* make it so that you can fill it out on your system. Note that *every* instance that I've done that, acroread tells me that I *must* print it, and that I *cannot* save it filled out.
That, of course, is solved by the pdfprinter driver for CUPS, though that leaves me with a filled out, but un-re-editable document.
And yes, I have a bunch of purchase requests that I filled out in the last couple of years that were like this, and yes, I used acroread.
mark
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:46 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
I had, in the past, a .pdf reader that also permitted me to fill in some information, when I received a .pdf file.
<snip> > Adobe Reader is only a "reader" as I assumed it would be. Some PDF > readers can also fill in forms, do editing, etc., however not Adobe > Reader. <snip> I don't know what's wrong, other than the possibility that wherever you got the form, they did *not* make it so that you can fill it out on your system. Note that *every* instance that I've done that, acroread tells me that I *must* print it, and that I *cannot* save it filled out.
That, of course, is solved by the pdfprinter driver for CUPS, though that leaves me with a filled out, but un-re-editable document.
And yes, I have a bunch of purchase requests that I filled out in the last couple of years that were like this, and yes, I used acroread.
mark
Mark: I now have Adobe Reader 9 installed on the M$ Windows side and also on the Linux side of this box. Both show among the plugins, the Acrobat Forms plugin is Not loaded. Possibly if that plugin can be loaded, in Adobe Reader, one can fill in forms.
On the Windows side, I have a Freeware program, Nitro PDF Reader 2, that is very slick.
On the Linux side, I have pdfedit and my guess is that if it had the kind of Help files that Nitro PDF Reader 2 does, that pdfedit can do most or all of the things Nitro PDF Reader 2 can do.
pdfedit will do what I need to do, unless and until I find something better, that installs easily on CentOS 5.7 Thanks again for your help! Lanny
On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 12:47 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:46 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
I had, in the past, a .pdf reader that also permitted me to fill in some information, when I received a .pdf file.
<snip> > Adobe Reader is only a "reader" as I assumed it would be. Some PDF > readers can also fill in forms, do editing, etc., however not Adobe > Reader. <snip> I don't know what's wrong, other than the possibility that wherever you got the form, they did *not* make it so that you can fill it out on your system. Note that *every* instance that I've done that, acroread tells me that I *must* print it, and that I *cannot* save it filled out.
That, of course, is solved by the pdfprinter driver for CUPS, though that leaves me with a filled out, but un-re-editable document.
And yes, I have a bunch of purchase requests that I filled out in the last couple of years that were like this, and yes, I used acroread.
markMark: I now have Adobe Reader 9 installed on the M$ Windows side and also on the Linux side of this box. Both show among the plugins, the Acrobat Forms plugin is Not loaded. Possibly if that plugin can be loaded, in Adobe Reader, one can fill in forms.
---- Acrobat on Linux (AdobeReader to be more precise) will indeed do forms but you really should disable the browser plug-in (I believe in Firefox lingo, they're called extensions) and you will have less memory issues with FF and PDF files will download and allow you to choose which program you use to open them (AdobeReader or /usr/bin/acroread) and life is generally better.
Craig
On 09/23/2011 08:45 PM Craig White wrote:
On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 12:47 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:46 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Lanny Marcus wrote:
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Lanny Marcus lmmailinglists@gmail.com wrote:
I had, in the past, a .pdf reader that also permitted me to fill in some information, when I received a .pdf file.
<snip> > Adobe Reader is only a "reader" as I assumed it would be. Some PDF > readers can also fill in forms, do editing, etc., however not Adobe > Reader. <snip> I don't know what's wrong, other than the possibility that wherever you got the form, they did *not* make it so that you can fill it out on your system. Note that *every* instance that I've done that, acroread tells me that I *must* print it, and that I *cannot* save it filled out.
That, of course, is solved by the pdfprinter driver for CUPS, though that leaves me with a filled out, but un-re-editable document.
And yes, I have a bunch of purchase requests that I filled out in the last couple of years that were like this, and yes, I used acroread.
markMark: I now have Adobe Reader 9 installed on the M$ Windows side and also on the Linux side of this box. Both show among the plugins, the Acrobat Forms plugin is Not loaded. Possibly if that plugin can be loaded, in Adobe Reader, one can fill in forms.
Acrobat on Linux (AdobeReader to be more precise) will indeed do forms but you really should disable the browser plug-in (I believe in Firefox lingo, they're called extensions) and you will have less memory issues with FF and PDF files will download and allow you to choose which program you use to open them (AdobeReader or /usr/bin/acroread) and life is generally better.
Craig
Agreed. Adobe products, at least those meant to run on Linux, are easily confused. I use them minimally, if at all.
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