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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> 
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> Diolch yn fawr, Ashley
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                Matthew Saltzman

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