Posted: 6/15/2005 11:34:11 AM EDT
| Is there any way to manipulate a read only Adobe document so that I can fill in the form from a PC, rather than having to use a typewriter to do so. Thank you, oh great hive mind. |
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Well, you could always download a copy of Knoppix 3.7 EN, which has "the GIMP" (GNU Image Manipulation Program) on it. This will read the PDF file. Then you can save it as a GIF or TIFF. You can use GIMP to add text to the image as long as you're at it. There may be versions of GIMP for MS-Windows now, too, but I haven't had any need to look. |
Your problem isn't that the .PDF document is read only - that's an entirely different issue. What you want to do is type in the information into little fields in the document. Those have to be set up by the document's author ahead of time using Adobe Acrobat. If they had done this then you could do want you want. You, OTOH, are using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader that doesn't let you create or modify .PDF files, so you're stuck using the document in the format that it was created in. If you don't have the retail ( as in not free) version of Acrobat, then you can't change anything. |