"Weaver" writes:
>> On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:18:11 +0100
>> Claudius Hubig wrote:
>>
>>> Hello richard,
>>>
>>> richard wrote:
>>> >You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the
>>> form
>>> >was blank.
>>> >Always worth checking a file exported as a pdf, is what you thi
Jude DaShiell wrote:
> can acroread and acroread-plugins work in a command line environment
> or is this strictly gui?
Not sure what you want. You can do a 'acroread filename.pdf', but
of course you will need X for a PDF viewer.
There are a few things you can do on the command line using acroread
Curt:
> Siard:
> > Curt:
> > > Siard:
> > > > Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free
> > > > repository.
> > >
> > > It is?
> >
> > In Wheezy:
> >
> > $ apt-cache policy acroread
> > acroread:
> > Installed: 9.4.6-0.1
> > ...
> > http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ wheezy/non-f
richard wrote:
>On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:18:11 +0100
>Claudius Hubig wrote:
>
>> Hello richard,
>>
>> richard wrote:
>> >You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the form
>> >was blank.
>> >Always worth checking a file exported as a pdf, is what you think you want.
>> >
Weaver wrote at 2012-01-15 05:44 -0600:
> You can scan it back in at your end and attach it.
Or fill it out, print it to cups-pdf, then attach the resulting PDF.
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> On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:18:11 +0100
> Claudius Hubig wrote:
>
>> Hello richard,
>>
>> richard wrote:
>> >You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the
>> form
>> >was blank.
>> >Always worth checking a file exported as a pdf, is what you think you
>> want.
>> >Xpdf tel
on 14 Jan 2012 15:39:44 -0500
"John A. Sullivan III" wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 20:10 +, richard wrote:
> > On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:48:43 + (UTC)
> > Curt wrote:
> >
> > > On 2012-01-14, Siard wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository.
On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:18:11 +0100
Claudius Hubig wrote:
> Hello richard,
>
> richard wrote:
> >You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the form
> >was blank.
> >Always worth checking a file exported as a pdf, is what you think you want.
> >Xpdf tells the truth, but
can acroread and acroread-plugins work in a command line environment or is
this strictly gui?On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, Siard wrote:
> John A. Sullivan III:
> > Form filling is not in the base package. I believe you need to
> > install the acroread-plugins for that to work
>
> Indeed, after installin
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 01:00:35PM -0800, Weaver wrote:
>
> > John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> >> This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment.
> >
> > I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has
> > very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins f
Hello richard,
richard wrote:
>You end up filling in a form sending it off , only to get an answer the form
>was blank.
>Always worth checking a file exported as a pdf, is what you think you want.
>Xpdf tells the truth, but its only a reader.
You can try printing the filled-in form as PDF from w
On 2012-01-14, Siard wrote:
>> >
>> > Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository.
>>
>> It is?
>
> In Wheezy:
>
> $ apt-cache policy acroread
> acroread:
> Installed: 9.4.6-0.1
> ...
> http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ wheezy/non-free i386 Packages
> ...
When I r
> John A. Sullivan III wrote:
>> This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment.
>
> I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has
> very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for
> Acrobat that can do some more editing, but it's still rather li
Curt wrote:
> On 2012-01-14, Siard wrote:
> >
> > Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository.
>
> It is?
In Wheezy:
$ apt-cache policy acroread
acroread:
Installed: 9.4.6-0.1
...
http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ wheezy/non-free i386 Packages
...
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On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 20:10 +, richard wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:48:43 + (UTC)
> Curt wrote:
>
> > On 2012-01-14, Siard wrote:
> > >
> > > Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository.
> >
> > It is?
> >
> >
>
> Acroread both linux and win thing failed to s
On 2012-01-14, richard wrote:
>
> Hi Evince only looks like it can be used for forms.
Works for me.
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John A. Sullivan III:
> Form filling is not in the base package. I believe you need to
> install the acroread-plugins for that to work
Indeed, after installing package acroread-plugins, acroread does
form filling. Thanks.
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On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 19:48:43 + (UTC)
Curt wrote:
> On 2012-01-14, Siard wrote:
> >
> > Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository.
>
> It is?
>
>
Acroread both linux and win thing failed to save these forms, with an error
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On Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:44:14 +0100
Siard wrote:
> hvw59601:
> > Siard wrote:
> > > hvw59601 wrote:
> > > > and www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ?
> > >
> > > Those are PDFs with forms. On second thought, that's probably what
> > > OP meant. But it wasn't understood as such by the other posters
>
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 20:44 +0100, Siard wrote:
> hvw59601:
> > Siard wrote:
> > > hvw59601 wrote:
> > > > and www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ?
> > >
> > > Those are PDFs with forms. On second thought, that's probably what
> > > OP meant. But it wasn't understood as such by the other posters
> >
On 2012-01-14, Siard wrote:
>
> Acroread should be able to do it, it's in the non-free repository.
It is?
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hvw59601:
> Siard wrote:
> > hvw59601 wrote:
> > > and www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ?
> >
> > Those are PDFs with forms. On second thought, that's probably what
> > OP meant. But it wasn't understood as such by the other posters
> > either.
>
> And I also misinterpreted OP's question. Sorry.
Siard wrote:
hvw59601 wrote:
Siard wrote:
John A. Sullivan III wrote:
This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment.
I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat
has very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party
plugins for Acrobat that can do some more
hvw59601 wrote:
> Siard wrote:
> > John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > > This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment.
> >
> > I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat
> > has very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party
> > plugins for Acrobat that can do
Hugo writes:
> and http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html ?
Filling in blanks in forms created for the purpose is not editing to me
(though it is still misuse of the PDF format).
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On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 21:50:21 +, richard wrote:
> Is there any free app which can edit pdf files.
(...)
PDFedit, but don't expect the same results/options/level of management
that you would have with Acrobat Professional. When it comes to PDF
edition software Adobe is nowadays "the king of
On 01/13/2012 01:50 PM, richard wrote:
Greetings,
Is there any free app which can edit pdf files.
Evince looks like it does it, you can edit, send it as an attachment and read
it with another copy of evince and you can see the alterations.
Open it on a poxy winblos machine with acrobat or acror
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 12:01 -0600, hvw59601 wrote:
> Siard wrote:
> > John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> >> This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment.
> >
> > I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has
> > very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party p
On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 18:50 +0100, Siard wrote:
> John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment.
>
> I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has
> very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for
> Acrobat that c
Siard wrote:
John A. Sullivan III wrote:
This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment.
I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has
very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for
Acrobat that can do some more editing, but it's still rathe
John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> This is a real hole in the Linux desktop environment.
I disagree. PDFs are not _meant_ to be edited. Even Adobe Acrobat has
very limited options to edit a PDF. There are third party plugins for
Acrobat that can do some more editing, but it's still rather limited.
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"John A. Sullivan III" writes:
> On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 21:50 +, richard wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>>
>> Is there any free app which can edit pdf files.
>> Evince looks like it does it, you can edit, send it as an attachment and read
>> it with another copy of evince and you can see the altera
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:20:05 +0100
Claudius Hubig wrote:
> "John A. Sullivan III" wrote:
> >1) OpenOffice PDF plugin - probably the best potential but it still
> >sometimes chokes on some PDFs or mangles the formatting badly.
> >
> >2) Xournal - good and simple if you only want to add text but n
"John A. Sullivan III" wrote:
>1) OpenOffice PDF plugin - probably the best potential but it still
>sometimes chokes on some PDFs or mangles the formatting badly.
>
>2) Xournal - good and simple if you only want to add text but nothing
>beyond that.
>
>3) GIMP - extremely powerful and consequently
On Fri, 2012-01-13 at 21:50 +, richard wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>
> Is there any free app which can edit pdf files.
> Evince looks like it does it, you can edit, send it as an attachment and read
> it with another copy of evince and you can see the alterations.
> Open it on a poxy winblos machin
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