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Hi :)
That sounds interesting!  How do you create a "fillable field"?  I know
about hybrid Pdfs but fillable fields sounds like something that could be
used outside of LO.
Regards from
a Tom :)



On 30 April 2018 at 22:57, Remy Gauthier <remygauthier@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Le lundi 30 avril 2018 à 21:53 +0000, Virgil Arrington a écrit :
> > On 04/30/2018 05:49 PM, Ben Oliver wrote:
> > > On 18-04-30 21:43:00, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> > > > This is intriguing. I just looked over my options with LO 6.0.3
> > > > in
> > > > saving as a PDF and I don't easily see any method of saving as a
> > > > "fillable PDF form." Can you give a quick explanation of how to
> > > > do that?
> > > >
> > > > Like Tom, I've always thought of PDF as a generally non-editable
> > > > format,
> > > > although I have used fillable PDF forms before. I've just never
> > > > known
> > > > how to create a fillable PDF. Can it be done from within LO?
> > > >
> > > > Virgil
> > >
> > > My understanding is that it's a feature pretty much only covered
> > > by
> > > Adobe software. That includes filling out a form.
> > >
> > > Things may have changed since I last checked.
> >
> > That was my thinking as well, which is why I'm intrigued by the
> > possibility of doing it directly within LO.
> When you create a Writer document with fillable fields, the resulting
> PDF supports having these fields edited. I just tried this with LO
> 6.0.3 and Evince (Linux). I suspect the same will apply to Acrobat
> Reader.
> Rémy.
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