[NTLUG:Discuss] survey using PDF with fields

[Robert Citek]

On Jul 15, 2005, at 10:10 AM, Kyle Davenport wrote:
>> On Jul 14, 2005, at 3:43 PM, Walter Johnston wrote:
>>> I have seen pdf documents w/ "fill in the blank" ability which
>>> can export their data in XML. Do you know if Scribus can do that
>>> (or something similar)?
>>
>> That would be awesome because that would greatly simplify parsing out
>> the filled-in fields.
>
> yes, that's what pdftk will do.

Very nice!  http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/

One thing I discovered was that a form PDF create with Scribus can be  
opened by Acrobat Reader and filled in, but not saved.  Printing the  
filled-in PDF as new PDF worked fine for viewing and printing, but  
the text could not be selected, i.e. copied and pasted.  I'm curious  
to know if pdftk will work on those kinds of documents.

Regards,
- Robert
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