Re: Editable PDF files

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

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