Re: [evince] Looking for ways to automatically fill out pdf forms

[Andreas Grünbacher <andreas gruenbacher gmail com>]

Hi José,

2016-12-21 16:13 GMT+01:00 jose aliste gmail com <jose aliste gmail com>:
> Hi Andreas,
>
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 9:04 AM, Andreas Grünbacher
> <andreas gruenbacher gmail com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm looking for ways to automatically fill out pdf forms.
> >
> > Ideally, I would pass evince a list of field names and values and ask
> > it to produce a filled-out form, or print to a file to produce a
> > static pdf. I have some control over the forms being filled out, so I
> > should be able to fix things in the forms if necessary.
> >
> > Is evince a reasonable tool for that?
>
>
> I think you need to use poppler directly, and if you need an UI then you
> could open the modified version with evince.

sounds great, I'll give that a try.

Thanks,
Andreas