[Novalug] printing or otherwise saving non-printing fillable .pdf files

Mark A. Metz mametz@aol.com
Wed Jan 9 16:01:20 EST 2013


flspd sounds like something to consider.  I use Acrobat Reader for Linux.  It let's me fill forms and print them or save them to file as postscript.

Bonnie Dalzell <bdalzell@qis.net> wrote:

>On Tue, 8 Jan 2013, Nino R. Pereira wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> On occasion I get a fillable .pdf that is set up such that I can't
>keep
>> an electronic
>> copy of the filled-out thing for myself; it doesn't want to save it
>as a
>> pdf, and
>> only tells me that it lets me print it, but when I try it doesn't
>show
>> the filled-in stuff.
>>
>> Is there a way around this that you know of?
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Nino
>>
>
>I use flpsed to edit pdf files and then save the filled in one.
>
>You might save the unfilled in copy and then use flpsed on it to fill
>it 
>in and thus make your own saveable copy with information in it.
>
>Another strategy I use is to fill in the document and then just use the
>
>screenshot application to make a screenshot of the window that is the 
>document. Screenshot can either save the whole screen or the active 
>window. This works with web pages that cannot be saved and with
>pictures 
>that will not let you download them also.
>
>
>
>
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