> > >Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 14:00:49 -0500 >From: Fritz Whittington <f.whittington@xxxxxxx> >Message-ID: <4342D161.4040409@xxxxxxx> > >Ian Pilcher grabbed a trusty #2 pencil and scribbled: > > > >>>Robert Bell wrote: >>> >>> >> >> >>>>>Is there any program for Fedora that will allow you to save data entered >>>>>into an editable PDF file (form)? The free Acrobat reader does not do >>>>>this and the other various PDF readers don't even let you edit the form >>>>>let alone save it. Thanks >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>> >>>Update your copy of Acrobat Reader (now Adobe Reader). >>> >>> >> >> >Update it to what? The version 7.0.3 which I have installed seems to be >the latest, and it WILL NOT let you save the data you have filled in to >a form (unless you count printing it as a form of "saving"). > > I was just noodling with that same thing recently (specificially I was making PDF Froms with OO.o ... nice feature BTW) and wondering how one would save the info ... because you can't by default. The only way that I currently know is by using the "print to PDF" functionality to create a read-only PDF with your filled in info from your PDF viewer. I am not sure if this suits your purposes. I think you can natively print to PDF with FC4 and there is something called PDFCreator in Windows to do the same thing. As far as saving the data automagically with the PDF, it might be possible with some javascript magic in the original source PDF but I haven't gotten that far in my noodling to see if that is possible. If anyone can point me to some good resources for writing dynamic PDF forms, I would apreciate it. /Mike
