On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 09:12:15 +0000, Roger Bell_West wrote:

> 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.

Thats useful to know. The PDF file I experimented on was just plain text.

For Bob: this is probably worth raising as either an enhancement request
or a bug report to the Office Libre gang. Having form filling on PDF
files work properly, or even just documented in Office Libre help text,
would be useful for a lot of people.


--
Martin    | martin at
Gregorie  | gregorie dot org

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05