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echo: rberrypi
to: BOB PROHASKA
from: MARTIN GREGORIE
date: 2020-03-12 11:10:00
subject: Re: Fillable/printable .p

On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 02:00:45 +0000, bob prohaska wrote:

> Martin Gregorie  wrote:
>>
>> Bob Prohaska: were you just trying to use LibreOffice Writer or did you
>> try LibreOffice Draw too?
>>
>>
> Just tried it now. LibreOffice Draw opens the form with some minor
> layout errors (fonts overlapping) but can't display field entries
> already present and does not seem to recognize fillable fields. It does
> seem to recognize graphic features like lines in tables. It does not
> seem to detect or offer to alter text embedded in the form.
>
Thanks for the update. Filed for future reference.

In case you need them, the PDF specification is here:
https://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html

and a GNU commentary which picks a simple example apart is here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20141010035745/http://gnupdf.org/
Introduction_to_PDF

The example doc is here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140624182842/http://www.gnupdf.org/images/d/
db/Hello.pdf


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