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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]]

{{#set:feature description = Through PDF Handler, we can display thumbnails of PDF files uploaded into the wiki }}

{{#set:feature notes = relies on <code>gs convert and pdfinfo</code> }}

{{#set:feature examples = The example on the right is used here and on the page [[Cloning]]. }}

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.

== Saving PDF Forms ==

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 ==

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.

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.

PHP developers should look at the libraries and [https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.pdf.php functions] provided there for manipulating PDF forms.

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

== See Also ==

# [[Format conversion]]

# see the [[Collections]] page for creating books which can be printed as PDF

# 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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-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.
+{{Feature
+|image=Adobe PDF.svg
+|imgdesc=PDF
+|title=
+}}
+[[File:Used car checklist.pdf|thumb|right|200px|2-page pdf version]]
+{{#set:feature description = Through PDF Handler, we can display thumbnails of PDF files uploaded into the wiki }}
+{{#set:feature notes = relies on <code>gs convert and pdfinfo</code> }}
+{{#set:feature tests =  }}
+{{#set:feature examples = The example on the right is used here and on the page [[Cloning]]. }}
+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.
+== Saving PDF Forms ==
+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 ==
 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.
+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.
+PHP developers should look at the libraries and [https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.pdf.php functions] provided there for manipulating PDF forms.
-PHP developers should look at the libraries provided there for manipulating PDF forms.
+== See Also ==
+# [[Format conversion]]
+# see the [[Collections]] page for creating books which can be printed as PDF
+# 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.
 [[Category:PHP]]