PDFTK and such . . ..

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 15:08 -0700, cary mabe wrote:
> I was reading the topics from today and yesterday, and as I am working
> on something requiring pdf files to be modified right now as well, I
> have a question.  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?  My real job has
> some forms that I would love to either be able to bring home and work
> on in linux, or maybe port them to something that would be alot more
> manageable on both sides of the fence, i.e. open office format, some
> form-fill program I don't know, etc.  Thanks in advance.  I know, I
> should be learning to do things from the command line, but at this
> point I am still looking for things that make my life easier, and a
> nice gui to see what I'm doing is easier!
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fdf files require Adobe's Acrobat Reader for Linux.

They now have a version 8.x for Linux but I am still mostly using 7.08.

You also need to install the plugin for mozilla/firefox for fdf files as
they use firefox to pull in the related pdf file.

Craig