. Solved (below) On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:41, Craig White wrote > On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 19:05, 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? > ---- > the question isn't entirely clear and the PDF form is always subject > to restrictions imposed by the creator but are you using AdobeReader > > 7.08? or are you using evince or KPDF or what? > > AdobeReader can certainly fill out forms and print them flattened and > even save them if not restricted. > > pdftk (command line driven utility) is capable of merging data fields > from 'fdf' files into matching 'pdf' files but that doesn't sound > like what you are looking for. Well, I stumbled into a solution by using xpdf. (Couldn't get pdftk to work with the syntax described in man pdftk: pdftk form-filled.pdf output fixedcontent.pdf flatten Instead, I opened the form-filled.pdf file with xpdf and printed it to filename fixedcontent.ps ... then used ps2pdf to convert it. This resulted in a file even smaller than the one I got last year. The original file form-filled.pdf file was 291,092 bytes The flattened result file last year was 67,570 bytes. The new flattened result using xpdf is 29,084 bytes and looks identical. --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss