In my daily life I strive to be as paperless as possible – for months I even managed to do without renewing the ink in my printer and found ways to resuse paper or just do things electronically.
Generally, the only paper I use on a regular basis is some old paper to write down set lists for the band I play in, or a little notebook I carry around for meetings or when I’m on a train – I don’t actually object to writing by hand, and find it a relaxing activity sometimes.
Anyway, one of my bug-bears are the PDF forms I sometimes have to fill in where the author hasn’t given me the possibility to edit it electronically. Good for them I suppose, annoying for me.
After a bit of hunting around I discovered this neat little program called Docu-Track that does just the trick. And even betterer it is free, not open source, but free is still good, and it does most of what I think most people will need.
I did a little tutorial to show how to use it, which you can find right here below – I hope you find it of use.
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1 Melvin James // Dec 16, 2009 at 8:44 am
Adobe Acrobat is awesome but too expensive. It is out of my budget. I convert the PDF form to Word doc then fill it out in Word document. Very fast and easy. http://www.anypdftools.com/pdf-to-word.html
2 admin // Dec 16, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Thanks Melvin, looks ok, except it’s not free (not expensive though).
What I liked especially about the docu-track was that it keeps everything as it is PDF-wise. So there’s no chance of upsetting some official who’s job is to get upset about these things when it isn’t exactly right.
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