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

[Josef Lowder]

On 11/27/08, Tuna <tuna at supertunaman.com> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks, Tuna.

I have already created an image (jpg rather than png but I could
convert it); but I don't know what graphics editor would be practical
and efficient for filling in a letter-length text block.   Gimp seems very
cumbersome to me.  Are there other simpler options?