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echo: rberrypi
to: MARTIN GREGORIE
from: ROGER BELL_WEST
date: 2020-03-10 09:12:00
subject: Re: Fillable/printable .p

On 2020-03-10, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>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.

I _believe_ that, while you can indeed add text to a document that
way, it does not constitute "filling in the PDF form fields". So
that's fine if you're just going to print it, but if someone else is
expecting to parse it with software it's unlikely to work.

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