Re: Do you know of a free PDF writer that supports the creation of forms?

[Kathleen MacDowell <kathleen -at- writefortheuser -dot- com>]

I noticed that you can't save the Open Office form, Richard.

I haven't used Nitro PDF yet, but they have had a special, $49, and their
claims imply they match Acrobat Pro capabilities.

http://www.nitropdf.com

Regards,

Kathleen


On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 8:07 PM, Richard L Hamilton <dick -at- rlhamilton -dot- net>wrote:

> Leonard,
>
> You might want to try Open Office. Here is a blog entry that
> describes how you can make forms with Open Office. I have only
> done this a couple of times, but it seems to work ok.
>
> http://danilop.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/how-to-create-pdf-forms-with-ope
> noffice/<http://danilop.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/how-to-create-pdf-forms-with-ope%0Anoffice/>
>
> Best Regards,
> Richard Hamilton
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> > All,
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> >
> > I'm looking for a free/open source PDF writer that support
> > the creation
> > of forms. Any ideas?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
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