Re: Editing PDF forms

2004-10-25 Thread Dave Howorth
I wrote: Does anybody know of a way to edit PDF forms then save the result? Our accounts/systems departments in their wisdom have decided that to make a purchase we must now fill out a PDF form. I can do that using acroread but it won't let me save the result (you have to buy Acrobat for that ca

Re: Editing PDF forms

2004-09-29 Thread Blake Swadling
On Thu, 2004-09-30 at 06:10, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Blake Swadling wrote: > > > >> > >> yikes. I thought I'd give this a shot and it saved every character in > >> a 3 page document as a bezier curve. I'd prefer not to have to cut > >> chars from beziers. Is this a freak or have i missed someth

Re: Editing PDF forms

2004-09-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Blake Swadling wrote: yikes. I thought I'd give this a shot and it saved every character in a 3 page document as a bezier curve. I'd prefer not to have to cut chars from beziers. Is this a freak or have i missed something?/ -ndt fixes it Is this an option of pstoedit? Did not find so in 3.31-

Re: Editing PDF forms

2004-09-29 Thread Blake Swadling
On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 20:29, Blake Swadling wrote: On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 22:21, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: So you end up with one .fig file for each page in the doc. You edit each page the way you do by hand and create an .eps file for each also. yikes. I thought I'd give

Re: Editing PDF forms

2004-09-29 Thread Blake Swadling
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 22:21, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: So you end up with one .fig file for each page in the doc. You edit each page the way you do by hand and create an .eps file for each also. yikes. I thought I'd give this a shot and it saved every character in a 3 page document as a bezie

Re: Editing PDF forms

2004-09-28 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I just checked that again and with the latest Sarge the output looks super. This presumes you start out with a pdf form of some sort... Get xfig and transfig use: pstoedit -f "fig:-startdepth 999" %d.fig to generate your .fig files. This generates one .fig file for eac

Re: Editing PDF forms

2004-09-28 Thread Dave Howorth
In reply to: Does anybody know of a way to edit PDF forms then save the result? Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I just checked that again and with the latest Sarge the output looks super. This presumes you start out with a pdf form of some sort... use: pstoedit -f "fig:-startdepth 999" %d.fig to generate

Re: Editing PDF forms

2004-09-28 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
> I just checked that again and with the latest Sarge the output looks > super. This presumes you start out with a pdf form of some sort... > > Get xfig and transfig > > use: pstoedit -f "fig:-startdepth 999" %d.fig to generate your > .fig files. > > These you edit with xfig. Use "T" button

Re: Editing PDF forms

2004-09-27 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobica
On 27-09-2004, at 22h 42'25", Joost Witteveen wrote about "Re: Editing PDF forms" > > > >What is a .fig file? > > > A .fig file is what is created by the command you choose to cut out: > > $ pstoedit -f "fig:-startdepth 999" %d.fig >

Re: Editing PDF forms

2004-09-27 Thread Brad Sims
On Monday 27 September 2004 10:13 am, Dave Howorth wrote: > Do you know of software that will convert the PS to a PDF form? ps2pdf may be a good place to start -- And someone pointed out that tiny children steal your brains, both while in the womb and afterwards, and summed it up, "Traditionally

Re: Editing PDF forms

2004-09-27 Thread Joost Witteveen
Richard Lyons wrote: On Monday 27 September 2004 21:01, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Dave Howorth wrote: Does anybody know of a way to edit PDF forms then save the result? I fill out the IRS PDF forms and save them. Use pstoedit and transfig to create a .fig file of the PDF, like: Wh

Re: Editing PDF forms

2004-09-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dave Howorth wrote: Does anybody know of a way to edit PDF forms then save the result? I just checked that again and with the latest Sarge the output looks super. This presumes you start out with a pdf form of some sort... Get xfig and transfig use: pstoedit -f "fig:-startdepth 999" %d.fig to ge

Re: Editing PDF forms

2004-09-27 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 27 September 2004 21:01, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Dave Howorth wrote: > > Does anybody know of a way to edit PDF forms then save the result? > > > > > > > > I fill out the IRS PDF forms and save them. > > Use pstoedit and transfig to create a .fig file of the PDF, like: What is a .

Re: Editing PDF forms

2004-09-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dave Howorth wrote: Does anybody know of a way to edit PDF forms then save the result? I fill out the IRS PDF forms and save them. Use pstoedit and transfig to create a .fig file of the PDF, like: pstoedit -f "fig:-startdepth 999" %d.fig Then use xfig to edit the file. Export it to eps (what you