On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 10:14:18 +1300, mark lewis wrote:

> Re: Re: Fillable/printable .pdf software for Pi?
>   By: bob prohaska to Martin Gregorie on Wed Mar 11 2020 00:56:10
>
>
>  bp> Admittedly I didn't look at help under LibreOffice Writer to bp>
>  see if there was some special trick to filling out PDFs. Given bp> the
>  popularity of fillable PDFs I hoped there'd be something bp>
>  straightforward.
>
> my understanding is that PDFs with fillable forms in them are meant to
> be filled when using a PDF viewer... i don't see how libreoffice comes
> into play,
>
Apparently the US tax people are expecting people to do this.

The commonest one, xpdf, is explicitly a viewer only and qpdfview only
allows rotation and scaling. According to Wikipedia the only programs
that explicitly allow you to edit an existing PDF file and run under
Linux are:

LibreOffice Draw, OpenOffice Draw, PDFedit, Pdftk, PDF Studio and Karbon

Of this lot, I've only heard of the first two until now and others have
said that Pdftk is just a set of command line tools, nor with a GUI front
end and are a faff to use.

So what do you use to edit PDF files?


Bob Prohaska: were you just trying to use LibreOffice Writer or did you
try LibreOffice Draw too?


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