How to fill and edit awkward documents and forms attachments March 20, 2007
Posted by Andy Roberts in : Mac, Pajamanation , trackbackIt’s always so much easier when you know how.
Do you ever get stressed out by being sent a form to fill in which is in some version of microsoft word you can’t open or else as a read-only pdf?
It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking that the only solution is to try and translate the document into something which is editable right?
Wrong.
I asked on the pajamanation Flickr group then another solution came up afterwards from WHV who explains a solution using Omnigraffle, but the central idea is so simple it’s stupid.
All you have to do is think in terms of layers. Having grasped this concept there is clearly no such thing as a non-editable pdf. Open any vector graphics drawing package, import an image of the pdf and then write on top of it in a new layer. When finished, save, flatten and export or print to pdf again.
You could use Photoshop, Appleworks Draw, Macromedia Fireworks, The Gimp or soon probably one of the online image editors that are starting to appear.
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