[Tfug] marking up pdf documents

[Jeffry Johnston]

Sorry.. I wasn't the original poster (so the OP probably did ask the
right question).  I thought annotating would work as filling in.. My
mistake.  But yeah, Acrobat Reader works just fine filling in these
tax forms.

Jeff

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 3:33 PM, Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 03:00:54PM -0700, Jeffry Johnston wrote:
>  > Tried a couple of the suggestions so far on f1040.pdf  (heh heh)..
>
>  Okay, it sounds like you mislead us by asking the wrong question.  You
>  asked for a tool capable of annotating PDF files when what you wanted
>  was a tool capable of filling in PDF forms.  PDF is a nice, open
>  document format.  Adobe's extensions to it--including forms--are not.
>  As far as I know, only acroread is capable of filling in PDF forms
>  (and I'm not even sure if the latest version of acroread can handle
>  the latest version of PDF).
>
>
>
>  Claude
>
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