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More than ever, the Adobe "Portable Document Format" or PDF is a critical format for communication.  One feature of the format is that it bridges the world of the web with the world of print very well.
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[[File:Used car checklist.pdf|thumb|right|200px|2-page pdf version]]
 
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More than ever, the Adobe "[[w:Portable Document Format|Portable Document Format]]" or PDF is a critical format for communication.  One feature of the format is that it bridges the world of the web with the world of print very well.
 
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== Saving PDF Forms ==
 
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Annoyingly, Adobe Software does not allow you to save the contents of PDF forms using Adobe Acrobat Reader.  The software tells you to print the form if you wish to have a copy.  The solution is to avoid Adobe Reader (I left out the 'acrobat' since it's not even flexible -- hardly an acrobat).  Okular or Evince will allow you to save the contents of that application/healthcare/insurance/DMV form that you filled out so that you have an electronic record rather than a paper record.
 
  
 
== PDF Tools ==
 
== PDF Tools ==
 
Surprisingly, I could not easily create a new PDF that was a combination of two other pdf documents.  That's when I found the "PDF Toolkit" http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/
 
Surprisingly, I could not easily create a new PDF that was a combination of two other pdf documents.  That's when I found the "PDF Toolkit" http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/
  
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OpenOffice does output pdf, and so does KPrinter, but the PDF Toolkit offers many more features that really should be present in a GUI program like Okular (formerly Kpdf) -- which is a viewer rather than an authoring application.  At least you can install the "Service Menus" into Konqueror to get some easy right-click integration.  It would be interesting to use DCOP to create a simple merge GUI.
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OpenOffice does output pdf, and so does KPrinter, but the PDF Toolkit offers many more features that really should be present in a GUI program like Kpdf -- which is a viewer rather than an authoring application.  At least you can install the "Service Menus" into Konqueror to get some easy right-click integration.  It would be interesting to use DCOP to create a simple merge GUI.
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PHP developers should look at the libraries and [https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.pdf.php functions] provided there for manipulating PDF forms.
 
  
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PHP developers should look at the libraries provided there for manipulating PDF forms.
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# [[Format conversion]]
 
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# see the [[Collections]] page for creating books which can be printed as PDF
 
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# The [[Cloning]] article shows an example of how the '''PDF Handler''' extension allows the wiki to generate thumbnails for pdf files as if they were regular images.
 
  
 
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Revision as of 16:19, 5 November 2008

More than ever, the Adobe "Portable Document Format" or PDF is a critical format for communication. One feature of the format is that it bridges the world of the web with the world of print very well.

PDF Tools[edit | edit source]

Surprisingly, I could not easily create a new PDF that was a combination of two other pdf documents. That's when I found the "PDF Toolkit" http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/

OpenOffice does output pdf, and so does KPrinter, but the PDF Toolkit offers many more features that really should be present in a GUI program like Kpdf -- which is a viewer rather than an authoring application. At least you can install the "Service Menus" into Konqueror to get some easy right-click integration. It would be interesting to use DCOP to create a simple merge GUI.

PHP developers should look at the libraries provided there for manipulating PDF forms.

Portable Document Format = a widely used standard for representing documents electronically and print. PDF

PHP is the HyperText Preprocessor = the most popular programming language for the web

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