Martin Gregorie  wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Mar 2020 19:46:44 +0000, bob prohaska wrote:
>
>> I thought LibreOffice might do the trick, but not in any intuitive way
>> that I could easily find.
>>
> I was able to edit a PDF document with it just now. I'm currently running
> LibreOffice version 6.3.4.2.0 - this is the latest version for Fedora 31.
>
> It was pretty straight forward. I opened a PDF document I happened to
> have lying around with LibreOffice Writer and edited it just like any
> other Writer document. Then I exported it as a PDF document. xpdf opened
> it without any complaints and showed my test edit where I expected to see
> it.
>
> The only surprise was that when I saved the edited document by clicking
> 'Save', it was written to disk with an odg extension rather than the odt
> I expected.
>
> What did you do that was different to the above?

Not much, far as I can tell. The test document was
a 2019 IRS form 1040. The cursor tended to be in the
form of a hand. Clicking in one of the text boxes
selected the grab handles for the formatting boxes
most of the time. I did manage to put text in the
"first name middle initial box", but the font was
way too big and I couldn't repeat the feat in any
of the other key entry boxes I tried.

It was _very_ eager to let me tinker with the existing
text and formatting, which of course I didn't want.


> Do you have an earlier version of OfficeLibre?
>
It's 6.1.5.2, latest apt-get knows about.

I ended up using Google Chrome on an old Mac. That
least let me fill the forms and print them.

Thanks for replying,

bob prohaska

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