OpenOffice / PDF question

James Knott james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Mon Apr 24 23:51:21 UTC 2006


Madison Kelly wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   I've seen PDFs (ie: from the government) that had editable fields. For
> example, where it asked for your name you could click on it and type in
> your name. Once you were done, you printed the PDF with your data (I
> don't think you could re-save the PDF with your data).
> 
>   Has anyone done this in OpenOffice 2.0? Is it even possible? I've been
> googling and rtfm'ing to no avail. Thanks!!

IIRC, you need Adobe Reader v7 on Windows for that.  Of course you can
print anything to a PDF in Linux.
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