how to convert a pdf fill-in form to fixed content

Josef Lowder joe at actionline.com
Mon Mar 17 18:40:24 MST 2008


On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:07:30 -0700, Charles Jones wrote
> Josef Lowder wrote:
> > .
> > Last year I used the IRS supplied pdf forms to prepare my tax returns. 
> > When I finished filling in the "fill-in" pdf forms, somehow, I converted 
> > each one to a new pdf form that had *fixed* data for printing out, 
> > emailing, etc.  But now I can't remember how I did that. 
> >
> > How does one convert a pdf "fill-in" form to a fixed content pdf file?
> >
> 
> Definitely not the proper way to do it, but the last time I was in a 
> hurry to do this, I simply printed the PDF to a pdf printer 
> driver...the end result was a new PDF that was static :)
> 
> -Charles

Thanks Charles.  That sounds viable, but I'm not sure how to do that.
I tried to print the document to a file, but reader didn't seem to 
give me that option. So how does one print to a pdf printer driver?




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