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

[Tuna]

Josef Lowder wrote:
> 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?

Kolourpaint is pretty simple.

JPG is fine, just make sure you don't let it get too grainy.