RE: Do you know of a free PDF writer that supports the creation of forms?

["Richard L Hamilton" <dick -at- rlhamilton -dot- net>]

Kathleen,
 
You are right; Open Office creates one of those PDF forms
that you can only fill out and print, but not save. I've
never needed anything else, so I don't know if there's an
option for creating a savable form in Open Office, but I'd
bet there isn't.
 
Richard

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Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 10:09 PM
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Subject: Re: Do you know of a free PDF writer that supports the creation
of forms?


I noticed that you can't save the Open Office form, Richard.

I haven't used Nitro PDF yet, but they have had a special, $49, and
their claims imply they match Acrobat Pro capabilities.

http://www.nitropdf.com

Regards,

Kathleen



On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Richard L Hamilton <dick -at- rlhamilton -dot- net>
wrote:


Leonard,

You might want to try Open Office. Here is a blog entry that
describes how you can make forms with Open Office. I have only
done this a couple of times, but it seems to work ok.

http://danilop.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/how-to-create-pdf-forms-with-ope
<http://danilop.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/how-to-create-pdf-forms-with-op
e%0Anoffice/> 
noffice/

Best Regards,
Richard Hamilton

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