[libreoffice-users] Working with PDF docs that have data fields

Previous usage does not seem helpful but ..

Then, when you export the PDF, make sure the "Create PDF form" option is
selected on the "General" tab. 10/17/2016 12:44 PM, Ken Springer

What I want to do is mess with the "data" file in the way Adobe does it. 
It's US tax forms and in the past they could be filled out by 
calculating the numbers on a spreadsheet and then modifying the little 
data file that holds blanks, or previously mucked with such as entering 
"line23", into the value area,

It appears that Adobe has changed things yet again.

So I find that LibreOffice Writer can open the downloaded PDF file and 
allow changes to be entered but there is no way to read the little data 
file and install the pre-calculated numbers and names.

Previous text editors working with Ubuntu Linux have worked but they 
seem to be gone. Older PDF editors have had a menu option to save and 
re-enter the tiny "data file" which is just data and name pairs in lines 
of text.

I'd like to have someone show me the way to make that "Create PDF form" 
change over to "Here is my PDF form";  please use it.

Ideas??


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