[clug-talk] Adobe biting you back

[Nathan Davies]

On Oct 06, 2005 03:15 PM, Jarrod Major <jmajor at nucleus.com> wrote:

>On Thursday 06 October 2005 3:01 pm, Ian Bruseker wrote:
>>PDF form using free software? Unfortunately, I don't know. I know
>>you can make PDFs from OpenOffice, but I don't know if you can make
>
>You can make PDF's from any Koffice apps as well, they are handled a
>little
>differently, you don't save as or export as, rather, you go to print
>the file
>but instead of printing it, you select "Print to File (PDF)" and you
>can
>specify where it will save it.
>
>I don't know how to do fillable forms either but I thought that
>everyone
>should know about this with Koffice apps as they are unsung heroes in
>the
>productivity software world. I use em all the time and they do just
>about
>everything I need.
>
>Sorry for the sidestep...
>
>--
>Jarrod Major
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Have a look at fpdf.org, used it in the past to create pdfs from MySQL
queries.  Have never used Adobe so I can't compare the features. 


Nathan