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| From | Peter Flynn <peter@silmaril.ie> |
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| Newsgroups | comp.text.pdf, comp.editors |
| Subject | Re: free app to modify pdf files |
| Date | 2025-06-25 16:37 +0100 |
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On 24/06/2025 21:58, Dom Adso von Melk OSB wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jun 2025, Peter Flynn wrote:
>> I'm curious to know WHY you want to edit a PDF, which was designed as
>> a non-editable end-of-line format.
>
> Two possible reasons.
>
> - I want to add annotations (e.g. I periodically dump my bank account
> record of transactions, and wanto to add a sequence number to each
> operation) ... procedure, open pdf with libreoffice, place my text
> label, (re-)export as pdf, quit original file unsaved
>
> - I receive from some administration a pdf document containing a form
> (it is NOT a "pdf form", their fault) which in principle should be
> filled, signed, printed, scanned and returned (sic!) instead .,,
>
> ... open pdf with libreoffice, insert wished text, insert scanned
> pmg woith my signasture, export as pdf andf send resulting file
Interesting, thank you.
1. I would second Lawrence D'Oliveiro's suggestion to get the data
out of PDF and manage it some other way.
2. Much the same, except I do it using LaTeX to read the PDF and
overlay it with the data and signature and generate a new PDF.
I do [2] monthly for an insurance claim to an office which is about 30
years behind the times, and want the form filled in as paper, so I
generate the PDF and print it to send to them. They have never noticed
it's not automated, so they're happy and I'm happy. Because the "fields"
(blank spaces) are the same location every time, using LaTeX makes it
possible to do the whole things from a script.
Peter
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