PDFTK and such . . ..

[Matt Graham]

From: Ted Gould <ted at gould.cx>
> On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 15:08 -0700, cary mabe wrote:
> > Is there anything in the linux world that provides a
> > user-friendly gui to work with PDF forms (maybe called FDF's I dunno)
> > in the same spirit that acrobat does under windblows?

There's a native Linux version of Acrobrat Reader.  I tried it on a 
simple form-containing PDF and was able to use it to fill the form out
by hand.  You may need to be more specific about what you need to do
with these PDF forms to get good answers.

> The most recent versions of Evince (Document Viewer) does PDF forms.  

Yes, but evince 2.20.2 didn't work as well as acroread for the form I
tried.  It didn't seem to work correctly with checkboxes, for one.

> IMHO, there is no reason to learn the command line unless your
> administering servers.  If there is a reason, that's a bug.

There are some things that are much easier from the command line than
from any GUI.  "There are 30,000 files in dir A and 30,000 files in
dir B.  Which filenames are in dir A and dir B?"  ls and sort and 
uniq -d make this easy from a prompt; how would you do this from a
GUI?  (I asked someone a similar question on Usenet, and he waffled
worse than any politician you've ever seen.)

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