From: abiword@interlinx.bc.ca
Date: Thu Feb 06 2003 - 17:52:41 EST
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 05:41:59PM -0500, Mark Gilbert wrote:
>
> In theory the best way (and an easy one) would be to convert
> (transparently) the pdf to a real format, allow editing, and on save,
> convert back.
I don't even care to create a PDF out of the result so much as just
print it. But if it can be printed, making a PDF would be a small
step.
> Unfortunately, for some production cases, the form would
> have to be perfectly reproduced.
Right. Acrobat reader->PS->some_real_format_via_ghostscript should do
a decent job.
> However it is quite possible that the
> source needn't be, and thus one could easily replicate the pdf. Even if
> it need be, you could look at the different generation of the commercial
> products that do this, and compare to see where (if) our free software
> two-step differs.
I don't even mind a few manual steps. That is what scripting is for.
:-) It's the final tool (abiword in this case) that needs to handle
inputing on top of some kind of form that is the clincher.
> And there is one other way, but I'd rather not end up in Sklyarov's old
> cell.
:-) Me neither. I am not a US citizen or resident, but then again,
neither was he.
b.
-- Brian J. Murrell
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