![]() Some forms (all?) when you fill them out and print them have a bar of machine-readable gobbledygook on the page which lets the recipient of a printed pdf scan the data back in with 100% accuracy. It would be really neat if there were an app which could handle all that. I know that on Windows and Mac OS your adobe software can sign the pdf, but I don’t even know how that works exactly. ![]() ![]() At the moment I get them, print them, sign them and scan them back in to return to the sender. ![]() I need to sign pdfs, and sometimes fill out pdf forms which also need to be signed. However, the enquiry in the above-mentioned forum thread was not about designing PDF forms, it was about being able to complete existing PDF forms (including forms that have automatically-updating bar codes, and including being able to add a written signature to the form without printing it out): See the Adobe demonstration video Capture electronic data from printed forms. As forms usually have several fields, 2D bar code symbologies are used in order to be able to encode the amount of data in a practical way. In order to create PDF forms that contain automatically-updating bar codes it is necessary to purchase Adobe Acrobat DC or Adobe LiveCycle Designer, which are Windows-only applications. It is possible to create PDF forms with LibreOffice, although LibreOffice cannot create a form containing bar codes that get updated automatically with the information entered in fields on the form. A recent post in the Gentoo Forums made me interested to find out what is actually achievable with fillable PDF forms in Gentoo Linux and Windows 10 without being required to purchase a software licence, be it for personal or professional use, in order to be able to complete PDF forms (including forms that have automatically-updating bar codes).
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