Application question: Looking for a program that will allow me to templetes

Daniel Robitaille daniel.robitaille at mail.mcgill.ca
Sat Nov 24 18:22:58 UTC 2007


On 24-Nov-07, at 8:33 AM, Richard Seguin wrote:

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> This question applies to Ubuntu because I am wondering if we have
> anything in our repositories that could do this.
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> I want to produce a document template and have a front end program
> (like a Java program I will be making) fill in the information in the
> relevant parts of the form...
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> What applications could do this? and do we have it readily available?
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> Richard Seguin

Can you use the pdf format for that purpose instead of writing your  
own java front-end?

I used as an example this form from the US government:
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf

and was able to use evince in Gutsy to fill out the various boxes in  
it.  But then I wasn't able to resave the filled out copy. I haven't  
tried other pdf viewers. So maybe it's not a good option  for linux  
clients.

The other problem, and I don't know the answer, is if  there are any  
tool in Linux to create these pdf forms. At my workplace, we use pdf  
forms all the time,  but we are a windows-shop...







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