creating writable PDF's

[Robin Paul]

I was just wondering how do you create PDF's like the one I have attached in this mail in Linux? This one has been created in Mac OS X.

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[Robin Paul]

No response to my question. Seems as if all Linux users have been cleaned bowled!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008/12/31 Robin Paul <robin...@gmail.com>

[Shakthi Kannan]

Hi,

--- On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 1:36 AM, Robin Paul <robin...@gmail.com> wrote:
| No response to my question. Seems as if all Linux users have been
cleaned bowled!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Since, you have already concluded, there is no point in answering your
question. Good luck!

Please don't top-post or write HTML e-mail!
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SK

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[Sumantra Dutta Roy]

Many ways, Robin depending on what you want. OpenOffice can export to
PDF. If you're using \LaTeX, you can create PDFs directly.
Cheers, Sumantra.
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[gajendra khanna]

Hi Robin

> Many ways, Robin depending on what you want. OpenOffice can export to
> PDF. If you're using \LaTeX, you can create PDFs directly.
> Cheers, Sumantra.

As sumantra sir points out these are the two best ways of getting PDFs
on most platforms including GNU/Linux.
As you may perhaps be knowing OpenOffice 3 (deb packages were made
available on repo earlier) has some limited support
for even editing pdfs with certain extensions. (another special
software pdfedit tar ball is ofcourse also available on repo which is
also a good basic pdf editor).
If you want the pdf you are making interactive (like this one) refer
to: http://pdf-tips-tricks.blogspot.com/2007/12/how-to-create-interactive-pdf-with_13.html
(this blog may have other useful articles as well for reference).

here's another about pdf and OO:
http://www.labnol.org/software/download/openoffice-free-pdf-editor-without-acrobat/2187/

STW for more.
Best Regards
Gajendra
P.S. Happy New Year to all.

[Robin Paul]

None f the above links have something substantial. I searched in Latex , there it is written that it is possible to make interactive PDF's through Latex. However I cud find no recipe of doing so.

Robin

2009/1/1 gajendra khanna <gajendr...@gmail.com>

[gajendra khanna]

Hi Robin

> Latex. However I cud find no recipe of doing so.

I hope you're using the texlive distribution and not tetex which is no
longer under active development.
You will need the package texlive-latex-extra installed to make
interactive pdfs. Its documentation can be found in the
texlive-latex-extra-doc package. (This package has a lot of useful
latex utilities). Interactiveworkbook is the tex-package which you
have to use to make interactive PDFs which gets installed with the
above package. The documentation for this tex package has the
necessary tag and other details explaining how to make interactive
PDFs.

Best Regards
Gajendra