[TriLUG] How to fill out a PDF form? <OOPS i WAS WRONG>

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com
Tue May 29 19:45:31 EDT 2007


Kevin -- I thought I was running it in Firefox, but I was running it in 
Konqueror. It ran fine in Firefox. You should investigate it further.

SteveT

On Tuesday 29 May 2007 14:02, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 May 2007 11:54, Kevin J. wrote:
> > Maybe this will work: http://www.accesspdf.com/html_pdf_form/
> >
> > Let me know what you find that works as I'm also interested in this
> > solution.
> >
> > Kevin
>
> Thanks Kevin,
>
> I just ran that demo, and it was horrible. If I used the Tab key to go from
> field to field, it skipped around, and finally started scrolling on its
> own. I was using Firefox 1.5.0.7.
>
> What I ended up doing for now is using pdftoppm to convert to a graphic,
> and Gimp to layer my answers on top of the PDF image. Crude, but effective,
> although the reproduction of the initial form was pixelated to say the
> least.
>
> I'll let you know if I find anything better.
>
> Thanks
>
> SteveT



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