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Gah! Immigration forms!
Authored by: lullabud on Sep 23, '10 08:38:27AM

Gah! Why didn't either of these show up when I was googling for virtual printers a few weeks ago? Immigration forms in soft copy are protected PDFs with entry boxes. You fill them out but you can't (reliably) save them, so you have to have a printer handy wherever you're filling out your forms. For a guy like me who is living in a small apartment in the city staying up late filling out long forms with no printer, this is ridiculus ad inifintum. I was looking for something to act as a printer to print to a file and the only thing I found was a darwinports package that didn't work as described. Both of the solutions mentioned here are exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the awesome tip!



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Gah! Immigration forms!
Authored by: negritude on Sep 23, '10 03:45:16PM

"...darwinports..."

It's called MacPorts now. Make sure you're using the latest version.

FYI, CUPS-PDF is easily installed via MacPorts.

Oh, and VipRiser appears to be 10.6/Intel only, whereas CUPS-PDF will work on 10.5 and/or PPC machines.

Edited on Sep 23, '10 03:52:19PM by negritude



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Gah! Immigration forms!
Authored by: danlavie on Nov 17, '10 01:54:09PM

Dear lullabud,

You can try this method.

1. Download PDFKey Pro from: http://www.pdfkey.com/
2. Test it, it works every time for me, I recommend you buy it.

This little application will remove any encryption, password and protection from the pdf file, and create an unlocked version for you.

You can edit that unlocked PDF using the excellent PDFpen Pro from this link:
http://smilesoftware.com/PDFpen/index.html

PDFpen Pro is the Acrobat Pro alternative, but in some cases even better, not just cheaper.

To manage all you PDF files on your Mac, you can use Yep 2 from this link:
http://www.ironicsoftware.com/yep/index.html

Yep 2 will allow you not just to archive, Tag and catalog your PDF files, it's also a great Scanning software. so you can scan a PDF into Yep 2, the open it in PDFpen Pro, you can even let PDFpen Pro run OCR on the PDF, so all the text becomes editable. (great for old files you might have).

Hope that would give you a better workflow.

Cheers

Dan



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