[Scribus] Filling in forms which are supplied as PDFs

[David Goodenough]

On Saturday 29 April 2006 17:41, David Goodenough wrote:
> On Saturday 29 April 2006 16:13, Kite Lau wrote:
> > ? 2006-04-29?? 07:47 -0700?avox???
> >
> > > David Goodenough wrote:
> > > > On Saturday 29 April 2006 11:45, Maciej Hanski wrote:
> > > > ...
> > > >
> > > >> Could you place this form somewhere for everybody to see? I would
> > > >> try to convert this form to PostScript, e.g. on Linux with:
> > > >>
> > > >>  pdf2ps input.pdf output.ps
> > > >>
> > > >> and import the resulting output.ps into Scribus. Then simply put a
> > > >> second layer on top of it and .. whatever you desire :)
> > > >>
> > > >> cheers
> > > >> Maciej
> > > >
> > > > I tried this and it complained that the converting of 1203 images
> > > > failed. I am using the latest debian scribus-cvs version.
> > >
> > > Please don't use pdf2ps (from Ghostscript) to create file for import in
> > > Scribus.
> > > This creates a lot of bitmap images for characters and usually fails on
> > > import.
> > >
> > > You might have better results with pdftops (from xpdf or CUPS). If all
> > > fails, use
> > > imageframes even if the PDF is rastered.
> > >
> > > We have true PDF import on the roadmap but it's not there yet.
> > >
> > > /Andreas
> >
> > I just tested the 287.pdf file with pdftops, interestingly, the ps file
> > could not be imported by scribus at all.
> >
> > Please try to print the pdf to ps file within acrobat reader. The
> > generated ps file can be imported to Scribus as what I tested, only one
> > bitmaps will be missing. I think you can grab the bitmaps using gimp,
> > and import the bitmaps into scribus afterward.
> >
> > Kite
>
> I don't have acrobat, but I do have kpdf.  So I dumped it to ps using that
> and even then it would not import.  The Companies House image (the
> top left hand box) could not be imported, I wonder why?  I will use GIMP
> (which will load the pdf cleanly) to grab the image.  It would be nice
> to do it in one though.  I look forward to true PDF import, and given that
> is causes some problems with that image, I hope that this file will be kept
> as a test case.
>
> David
>
I notice that the GIMP does load the PDF, but says there are errors.  It says:

   **** Warning: Fonts with Subtype = /TrueType should be embedded.
                 But Helvetica-Bold is not embedded.
   **** Warning: Fonts with Subtype = /TrueType should be embedded.
                 But Helvetica is not embedded.

   **** This file had errors that were repaired or ignored.
   **** The file was produced by:
   **** >>>> Acrobat Distiller 5.00 for Macintosh <<<<
   **** Please notify the author of the software that produced this
   **** file that it does not conform to Adobe's published PDF
   **** specification.

David