Roger Bell_West  wrote:
> On 2020-03-09, bob prohaska wrote:
>>Is there a program that can fill, save and print PDF forms?
>
> It's not particularly easy, but there is. pdftk is what you need,
> which in Debian and Raspbian is now available in pdftk-java.
>
> Short version, given A.pdf with the blank form in it:
>
> pdftk A.pdf dump_data_fields_utf8 >FD.fdf
>
> Edit FD.fdf with a text editor
>
> pdftk A.pdf fill_form FD.fdf output B.pdf
>
> and B.pdf will contain the filled form.
>
> Note that you may need several iterations as you work out what to put
> where in form_data.fdf.
>
> Longer instructions going into crunchy details:
> http://blog.tremily.us/posts/PDF_forms/
>

Yikes! That's ugly 8-)

Makes word processing with MacPencil look good!

Thanks for reading and the speedy, if disheartening, reply!

bob prohaska

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