Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Filling PDF forms with LibreOffice

Hi

Poppler seems to only allow me to view, nt to edit, pdf on Ubuntu 10.04 but 
there are a lot of libraries and packages that start with that name and possibly 
one of them adds editing functionality.

I guess my question would be ... Does anyone know of an Open alternative that is 
easy to use in Windows too?

Regards from
Tom :)




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From: Alexander Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Wed, 19 January, 2011 12:59:49
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Filling PDF forms with LibreOffice

Le 18/01/11 20:12, amine amine a écrit :

Hi Amine,

> arabic characters in pdf files are not rendered well

This is a glyph hinting problem, linked either to the fact that the
glyphs are not properly integrated into the final PDF document, either
because of licensing issues, or because neither OOo nor LibO fully
support certain types of font rendering. You might want to open up a bug
report for this.


> some french characters are not rendered well

I would guess the same is true of French accented characters too,
although personally I have no problem with them.


You might need to experiment with your various fonts in order to see
which ones work best.


The PDF specification refused font embedding for certain fonts that were
not deemed acceptable by Adobe. You might also want to check whether
your fonts fall into that category.

On a Linux system, I seem to recall that libpoppler or the poppler
package is responsible for being able to edit PDF forms and save them.
There have continuously been problems with this library, and I have gone
through various phases of frustration in the past where I thought forms
had been filled in only to discover that nothing had actually been saved.


Alex


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