How to fill-in a pdf form with Open Office in Linux?

Tuna tuna at supertunaman.com
Thu Nov 27 08:32:07 MST 2008


Josef Lowder wrote:
> How can I fill-in a pdf form with Open Office in Linux?
> 
> Or, alternatively, how can I import a pdf document or a scanned jpg
> image into an Open Office document and then write some content over
> the top of that to fill in text in certain designated areas?

No. :(

You could open the PDF up in a viewer, set it to full-screen view, 
rotate it 90 degrees, take a screenshot, save as .png, open up the .png 
in a graphics editor, rotate it 270 degrees, and then fill in the text 
using the text tool.

Save, import into OpenOffice, export as PDF.

I can do the first few steps for you if you want.



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