[NTLUG:Discuss] Tax forms

[Kyle Davenport]

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From: Lance Simmons <lance at lsimmons.net>
> After looking at the opentaxsolver site, I'm not sure what you mean
> about the pdfs.  After I run the opentaxsolver program, the result is a
> text file.  And then I'm to enter the information from that file onto
> the pdf.  But using what?  I'm back to my original question: how do I
> fill in the blanks on an IRS pdf using linux?

woops!  I forgot about that step.   I just tried it right now - I'm using
the
Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 beta, and I'm not having any problem editing the
form and printing straight to a printer with the result, but my previous
acroread ver.5.0.10 doesn't seem to have any problem either.

(For anyone who hasn't signed up for the Adobe beta program, 7.0 is a big
step up.  gtk-based, slick, and lots of new features.)

One new feature is form data import.  The 1040 form allows import from a
form
data file (text, xml, fdf, or xfdf).  I just tried it now and looks pretty
easy.
I'm going to ask the OpenTaxSolver developers about that.  Soon we will
have a
method to automatically generate the form!


Kyle