[kde-linux] Need to create PDF forms

[Thomas King]

>On Thursday 19 January 2006 08:53, Vytautas Povilaitis wrote:
> > Can't you use some other format? All documents you can open with 
>openoffice
> > can be easilly exported directly to PDF format.
> >
> > On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 11:18:36 +0200, Ralph De Witt 
><ralphdewitt at charter.net>
>wrote:
> > > Hi all:
> > > I have a need to create PDF forms that can have data added to them
> > > manually and then printed out. So far I have figured out that I can 
>scan
> > > in a document/form and save it as a PDF file which Kword or Open 
>Office
> > > can open. But I do not know how to turn the blank spaces on the form 
>into
> > > data entry area's. Can anyone help?
>Vytautas:
>Yes I can use another format. But I do not understand how I can mark the
>fields were data is to be placed on the forms. Remember these are forms I 
>am
>scanning in, I do not have them in electronic format. Thanks for your help 
>so
>far.
>--
>	Yours,
>	Ralph.

I believe you may want to try using Scribus. Just a quick search turned up a 
couple of articles on folks using Scribus for "fillable" forms on PDF. I 
haven't used it myself, so I cannot help you there.

Tom