PDF as forms
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at CLEMSON.EDU
Wed Jul 18 12:28:07 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 18:48 -0700, Ashley Pritchard wrote:
> How unfortunate for you. If you paid for the software then you should
> have the right to run it in any OS that you want. But here is another
> solution - pdftk (The PDF Toolkit) this is command line only for
> manipulating PDF documents. You can use it to mergePDF files, split
> PDF pages into a new document. decrypt input if necessary, encrypt
> output, fill PDF forms with FDF data, flatten forms, apply background
> watermark, repair a corrupt PDF & more.
> To kinstall on F7 you just type as root: yum install pdftk.
> There is also perl-PDF-API2: ypu can download here:
> http://search.cpan.org/dist/PDF-API2/lib/PDF/API2.pm
> FC5: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=perl-PDF-API2
> FC6:
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/6/i386/repoview/perl-PDF-API2.html
> I did not find a F7 version
pdftk is in F7. Also see pdfedit, a fairly powerful-looking GUI for
manipulating PDFs.
>
>
> On 7/17/07, Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com> wrote:
> Yeah but we're a non-profit and solutions that include a
> proprietary
> software package and wine clearly aren't for us.
>
> Thanks
>
> Craig
>
> On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 13:59 -0700, Ashley Pritchard wrote:
> > You can run Adobe Acrobat under wine which I have done in
> the past but
> > have not done yet on F7. Wine HQ has an application
> database:
> > http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=847
> >
> > On 7/17/07, Craig White < craig at tobyhouse.com> wrote:
> > Looking for a way to do 'forms' which I can easily
> scan into
> > PDF format
> > but Ghostview/Evince/KPDF/Acrobat Reader do not have
> any
> > provision for a
> > text tool to place text over the top of these
> scanned pages.
> >
> > The only way I can conceive to do this is to split
> it page by
> > page and
> > open each with say GIMP but that is a real PITA.
> >
> > Is there a program that can do this that I am not
> seeing?
>
> >
> --
> Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com>
>
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