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Printing a PDF file from a PDF file with fill-in fields
Sheesh…….call me cheep. I could probably spend the $89 to buy Foxit Standard, but here goes a work-around:
I have the free version of Foxit Reader. I opened the FEMA Elevation Certificate in PDF file format and filled out all the fields. I had previously created an image file of my scanned signature and output my PLS seal to a bitmap file. I used the Foxit software to insert these images in the appropriate places. Since I want to maintain the security of my signature and seal, I wanted to print pages 3-5 of the 15 page certificate to another PDF file. Well, problem #1 popped up. All the populated fields will NOT print to another PDF file. A quick goofle search revealed similiar problems and solutions from others, including writing to an XPS writer. I am running Windows XP Pro, so no luck there – all I got was gibberish.
So, being the enterprising young man I am, I said, “:pissed: to heck with this!:pissed: ” and used Foxit to “snapshot” the contents of the entire page. I then pasted each page to MS Word document pages where I had set the margins to 0.2 all around. This worked OK, including the color photos that were attached. The pasted text was not as dark as I wanted, but it will do. I then appended the OPUS report, Quad map and Google Map images and printed the whole thing out to one PDF file.
There has GOT to be a better way. Buy the software or continue doing things the hard way!
What do you guys do?
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