Did you try okular? Last time I chekd I was able to use pdf forms.
Forgive me my ignorance, but what do you do after you've filled out the forms?
Saving works, but the filled out stuff appears only when opened with okular on the same computer (since okular saves the data somewhere in its files). I tried printing it out (with a cups-pdf printer), but the result does not have the filled out data.
EDIT: on a related matter: is there a way to make okular delete the filled out data from its files? I don't like having addresses and such lying around on my my harddrive at places that I don't know about. I know I could dig into ~/.kde4/share/apps/okular/docdata and manually clean up, but is there a way to do it properly from okular itself?
]]>-Inkscape has problems with loading the pdf file, but I've been told (on their IRC channel) that their svn version can load pdf files.
-Evince can input text, but does not seem able to check the checkboxes.
-Acrobat reader cannot be run through Wine.
So far, I have decided to stick with Evince, particularly since it is able to save the filled pdf forms, something that seems to not be provided in Adobe Acrobat reader (free as in beer).
Thank you for the posts, everybody. Please do not hesitate to update this thread in the future (I've not been able to understand some ImportPDF or ExtendedPDF plugin for openoffice, yet).
I shall put this information on the wiki at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PDF_forms . Please do not hesitate to update this information
Thank you all for your help,
Ravster
1) Load the pdf in gimp, save as a jpg (300dpi rather than 100dpi). Use the jpg as a background graphic in an openoffice document and type in the text you want.
If I have to email a form
2) Convert the PDF to svg, filling in the text on the form using inkscape and save as pdf. I found inkscape crashed when trying to load pdfs directly.
]]>I have had to fill out forms before I tried several others, xpdf is my viewer of choice, but I had to install acroread to get the forms done.
]]>You can find it in the AUR. The package is called acroread.
]]>Anyway, I have never used it but Google tells me other Linux people have: http://www.cabaret-solutions.com/en/
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