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Subject:Re: MS Word Forms in PDF From:Ben <baj357 -at- gmail -dot- com> To:Ethan Metsger <emetsger -at- obj-sys -dot- com>, baj357 -at- gmail -dot- com, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Tue, 15 May 2007 12:03:15 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Ethan;
Thanks for the link. I assume you are referring to the Writer app that OpenOffice.org offers?
Ethan Metsger <emetsger -at- obj-sys -dot- com> wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2007 14:23:30 -0400, Ben wrote:
> Is there another way? I've been using a third party add-in to convert MS
> Word docs, containing text fields for input, into PDF docs. Can I avoid
> third party tools? If there is no other way, what tools do you use? What
> do you like and dislike about them? Thanks for the valuable info!
Hi, Ben.
You might be able to import the document into OpenOffice.org and use their
PDF conversion tool. To the best of my knowledge, it works transparently.
Best,
Ethan
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