Hi Greg,
Sadly, haven't had time to read this entire thread so apologies if I'm
repeating somebody(s). But ...
I'm in the US and physically (neurologically) incapable of filling in forms
via handwriting. While the most popular forms here are now available as
"fillable" PDFs, they weren't always, and even now many less popular forms,
schedules, worksheets, etc. still aren't. As a result, I long ago came up
with a "simple" alternative. The GIMP will import a PDF (converting it to
an image at whatever resolution one desires). So far, I've been able to
import PDFs that 'evince' et al have failed on. Not sure why, but I'm
_gussing_ it's because The GIMP opens it in some read-only/non-fillable
mode. Anyway, it's then fairly easy to add text "layers" to fill in the
form. I like this because there's no scanning involved (i.e. no dust,
distortions, etc.) so the saved form is "perfect". I can even scan my
signature and add it to the form where needed. You can then print the
image directly from TheGIMP, or export it to a PDF (or, if that doesn't
work, export to PNG, then use 'pdfjam' to collect all the PDFs into one
(admittedly huge) final PDF.
A second, similar, alternative is to import it into InkScape. Since
InkScape uses vector graphics the resulting PDFs are much smaller, but I
find it more cumbersome and time consuming to use. Trade-offs, trade-offs.
:^|
Just my $0.02 USD.
Cheers
Leland
On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 2:47 PM Greg Knittl <gknittl@sympatico.ca> wrote:
Hi All,
thanks for all the comments, especially on standards. The Ontario
Ministry of Finance will send me paper forms. I doubt I would get very
far complaining to the Ombudsman unless I was absolutely blocked from
filing so this is probably the end of the line for my complaint with
Ontario.
I will scan the paper and write on it with Imagemagick as I usually do
in these type of situations.
Greg
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