pdf forms

[Maxflyer]

Is there any way to superimpose a pdf form into MS Word so that you can fill in certain areas of information and then print out the forms?

[BDiONU]

Originally Posted by Maxflyer

Is there any way to superimpose a pdf form into MS Word so that you can fill in certain areas of information and then print out the forms?

How do you mean? PDF files are, to all intents & purposes, 'photos' of page(s) and you cannot interact with them. You could insert one, print it out and then fill in the blanks.

BD

[Globaliser]

Originally Posted by BDiONU

How do you mean? PDF files are, to all intents & purposes, 'photos' of page(s) and you cannot interact with them.

You certainly can interact with them.

Try this form, for example (from the Courts Service). Even using Acrobat Reader, you can type in all the details and then print it. However, you can't save the typed details (or, at least, not when merely using Acrobat Reader).

[BDiONU]

Originally Posted by Globaliser

you can type in all the details and then print it. However, you can't save the typed details (or, at least, not when merely using Acrobat Reader).

Ah! I stand corrected then, but you cannot save it (or amend it).

BD

[unclenelli]

MS Office 2007 Beta

Download Office 2007 Beta which gives Word the option of saving as PDF files

Alternatively, OpenOffice (free) allows you to save as PDF as well

[HowlingWind]

but you cannot save it (or amend it).

Not when using Adobe Reader. However, when using Adobe Acrobat (or a PDF-making program with similar capabilities), I believe "active" PDFs can not only be completed but saved and e-mailed.

[GrumpyOldFart]

Try Foxit Reader - freeware - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

[Evo]

PDF files are, to all intents & purposes, 'photos' of page(s)

This is a very common misconception - PDF is much more than that. For example, lawyers, the military et al. regularly mess up PDF redaction by turning text 'black on black'. It looks right, but the 'redacted' text never went away and is trivial to recover.

[BDiONU]

Originally Posted by Evo

This is a very common misconception - PDF is much more than that.

The reason I say that is how PDF works for all the many and various vastly different applications its able to be used for. They all have one thing in common, you can print them. Its this print output which converts (or is converted) to PDF, hence a Word document of 50Mb can be reduced to a 100Kb PDF.

I'm more than happy to be corrected though

BD

[jetcollie]

There are many PDF editor programmes around that will let you do this. (Google is your friend!) Nitro PDF have a fully functional 30 day trial:

http://www.nitropdf.com/professional/trial.asp

It might be easier to download Adobe Reader, print out the forms and then fill them in by hand!

[extreme P]

http://www.abbyy.com/pdftransformer/

Thing of beauty. Convert to Word, fill in, convert back to pdf.