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Help printing forms from PDF onto pre-existing forms

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dadrew1

IS-IT--Management
May 4, 2005
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US
Here is my problem...

I have a form that a co-worker has to fill in by hand. She wants to print the data to the forms via printer. The forms are special, so I will have to run them through and print only the type to fill in the form.
I have scanned the document, got it into Adobe Acrobat 5.0, set up all the input fields, and set some of them up with default text. When I print, It prints out everything, including the scanned document. Again, I only want to print out what is entered into the fields, not the original form.
Any tips would be greatly appreciated, I just started with Acrobat, and can't find out the answer anywhere.
Thanks!
Drew
 
Well, I've done some experiementing, and if you use the pencil tool, set it's fill to white, and drag over the entire document, the only thing that shows up over it is the filled in form. Thats good and all, but I don't thing you can use that tool in REader (at least I couldn't figure out how on my computer.

Do you think there would be anyway that I could export or cut/paste just the form fields to another, blank PDF?

Thanks again
 
I got it finally. I didn't use Adobe Acrobat, though. I just made it with The GIMP, and a lot of trial and error work. Oh well.
 
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