[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: PS viewer and Acrobat Reader 9

[Stuart Johnston]

On 02/11/2011 01:32 PM, Fred James wrote:
> John Fields wrote:
>> I think someone else already pointed to printing the filled out pdf
>> into a
>> new pdf. In openSUSE KDE it is built in: just select print to file and
>> then select pdf as the file type (default is .ps).
>>
>> As a trick sometimes when a pdf is too large to email I will print it
>> to a
>> new pdf with different settings, like downsample images to 72dpi. That
>> almost always preserves viewing features but will strip out forms and
>> other
>> automation features.
>>
>> Why adobe chose not saving as their time-to-buy decision point is not
>> entirely clear to me since that is not made consistent across their pdf
>> products.
>> John
> That would work if Acrobat 9 was not required to be able to fill in the
> fillable form ... only print to file option there is *.ps

Have you tried evince for filling in the original PDF?  It worked with 
the IRS PDF I tried but if your PDFs are locked somehow, I don't know.

Did you have any luck converting the PS file to PDF using Chris's script 
or ps2pdf directly?