How do people fill in a pdf form?

We live in a listed building and I need to fill in the 8 page pdf LB
Consent form.

I can export the pdf page by page from !PDFtest as draw files and fill in individually in OpenVector. But that is very crude and a lot of fiddling.

Are there better ways?

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In article <5a3298b284news*@Torrens.org>,
Richard Torrens (News) <[email protected]> wrote:

How do people fill in a pdf form?

I always import the PDF pages into OvationPro, and then create transparent frames over the fields to fill in. The result is saved as a PDF file again.

Are there better ways?

Oh yes, if you happen to have a Windows machine. The free Adobe PDF reader
lets you fill in everything directly, without creating frames first. But
okay, that's Windows.

Paul

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In article <5a3298b284news*@Torrens.org>,
Richard Torrens (News) <[email protected]> wrote:

How do people fill in a pdf form?

We live in a listed building and I need to fill in the 8 page pdf LB
Consent form.

I can export the pdf page by page from !PDFtest as draw files and fill in individually in OpenVector. But that is very crude and a lot of fiddling.

Are there better ways?

Yes, go PC or even Linux side and use a real PDF editor.

Dave

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In article <5a3298b284news*@Torrens.org>,
Richard Torrens (News) <[email protected]> wrote:

How do people fill in a pdf form?

I know it goes against the grain, but it is possible to print them out and write on them.

This last bit is what non-computer people generally do!

Best wishes,

John

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In article <5a3298b284news*@Torrens.org>, Richard Torrens (News) <[email protected]> wrote:

How do people fill in a pdf form?

We live in a listed building and I need to fill in the 8 page pdf LB
Consent form.

I can export the pdf page by page from !PDFtest as draw files and fill
in individually in OpenVector. But that is very crude and a lot of
fiddling.

I also export as a Drawfile but then do the editing using !DrawWorksXL
which give lots of scope for choosing fonts, altering mistakes etc. then
I turn it back into a PDF. I find it's quite straightforward.

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In article <[email protected]>,
Chris Newman <[email protected]> wrote:

In article <5a3298b284news*@Torrens.org>, Richard Torrens (News) <[email protected]> wrote:

How do people fill in a pdf form?

We live in a listed building and I need to fill in the 8 page pdf LB Consent form.

I can export the pdf page by page from !PDFtest as draw files and fill
in individually in OpenVector. But that is very crude and a lot of fiddling.

I also export as a Drawfile but then do the editing using !DrawWorksXL
which give lots of scope for choosing fonts, altering mistakes etc. then
I turn it back into a PDF. I find it's quite straightforward.

Indeed! Easy for single pages, but it gets tedious for many pages.

OpenVector (which is free) can do fonts etc.

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In article <633da49f$0$22073$[email protected]>,
John Williams (News) <[email protected]> wrote:

In article <5a3298b284news*@Torrens.org>,
Richard Torrens (News) <[email protected]> wrote:

How do people fill in a pdf form?

I know it goes against the grain, but it is possible to print them out
and write on them.

This last bit is what non-computer people generally do!

Best wishes,

John

Indeed! That is what they are intended for. But then you have to scan them
back in - or use snail-mail!

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In article <5a331b9cf8news*@Torrens.org>,
Richard Torrens (News) <[email protected]> wrote:

OpenVector (which is free) can do fonts etc.

OvationPro is also free and can do everything.

Paul

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In message <5a331b9cf8news*@Torrens.org>
"Richard Torrens (News)" <[email protected]> wrote:

In article <[email protected]>,
Chris Newman <[email protected]> wrote:

In article <5a3298b284news*@Torrens.org>, Richard Torrens (News)
<[email protected]> wrote:

How do people fill in a pdf form?

We live in a listed building and I need to fill in the 8 page pdf LB
Consent form.

I can export the pdf page by page from !PDFtest as draw files and fill
in individually in OpenVector. But that is very crude and a lot of
fiddling.

I also export as a Drawfile but then do the editing using !DrawWorksXL
which give lots of scope for choosing fonts, altering mistakes etc. then
I turn it back into a PDF. I find it's quite straightforward.

Indeed! Easy for single pages, but it gets tedious for many pages.

I would use PrintPDF's Queue for each page and then on the final one get
it to produce a final PDF with all the pages joined together.

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In article <5a331b9cf8news*@Torrens.org>, Richard Torrens (News) <[email protected]> wrote:

In article <[email protected]>, Chris Newman
<[email protected]> wrote:

In article <5a3298b284news*@Torrens.org>, Richard Torrens (News) <[email protected]> wrote:

How do people fill in a pdf form?

We live in a listed building and I need to fill in the 8 page pdf
LB Consent form.

I can export the pdf page by page from !PDFtest as draw files and
fill in individually in OpenVector. But that is very crude and a
lot of fiddling.

I also export as a Drawfile but then do the editing using
!DrawWorksXL which give lots of scope for choosing fonts, altering
mistakes etc. then I turn it back into a PDF. I find it's quite straightforward.

Indeed! Easy for single pages, but it gets tedious for many pages.

OpenVector (which is free) can do fonts etc.

So can DrawWorks. I think there is a free version on the ISV/APDL site
that has been preserved but I can't find the URL for that at the moment.

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On 5 Oct, "Richard Torrens (News)" <[email protected]> wrote:

I can export the pdf page by page from !PDFtest as draw files and fill in individually in OpenVector. But that is very crude and a lot of fiddling.

Are there better ways?

Recent versions of ArtWorks can import .PDF files and you can just use the
Text tool to fill in the form.
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In article <[email protected]>,
Brian Howlett <[email protected]> wrote:

On 5 Oct, "Richard Torrens (News)" <[email protected]> wrote:

I can export the pdf page by page from !PDFtest as draw files and fill
in individually in OpenVector. But that is very crude and a lot of fiddling.

Are there better ways?

Recent versions of ArtWorks can import .PDF files and you can just use
the Text tool to fill in the form.

Really...
I tried that a while back when I had a half page dental form to fill in,
yes ArtWorks filled the form okay, but then what?
It was impossible to re-save it out at a PDF.

"Insufficient memory for application."

At that time, I never got the filled form back out of ArtWorks, so as per usual, I went MS-Windows side and did the deed without any problems.

Dave


A while after the above.... Though I couldn't get the thing exported out
of ArtWorks...
By using Steve's "!PrintPDF" I was able to get a PDF of the ArtWorks
edited dental form. :-(

D.


ArtWorks: Version 2.X3.01

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The date being 5 Oct 2022, "Richard Torrens (News)"
<[email protected]> decided to write:

How do people fill in a pdf form?

In !PDF export the page to a Draw file.
Fill in input fields in !Draw.
Drop in signature if needed.
Save.
Print to PDF3.
Job done.
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