[Gllug] Acrobat-like pdf editor for Linux ?

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 10:40, Richard Huxton wrote:
> On 17/05/10 17:58, Dennis Furey wrote:
>> I had good results using the gimp. It can import a pdf file as an
>> image and let you put text on it anywhere you want. Then you can save
>> it in postscript format, which you can convert to pdf using ps2pdf.
>
> That's not what a pdf form is. There is a spec for actual form fields
> with javascript to handle local validation and submit to a server.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format#Interactive_elements
>
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Right. And now it's (Acrobat) complaining that it can't get the server's
SSL certificate. Even though I followed its suggestion and did acroread
-installCert ... several times, and it said it was importing it OK.


I'm on the verge of giving up and finding a (ugh) Windoze machine somewhere.


Salsaman.



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