You can fill & save forms craeted with OOo and saved as Pdf files, using FoxIt (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/) .

Best regards

Levarcol

To make a long story short, it seems the ability for Reader to be able to save modified PDF forms (whatever program they are created with) depends on some obscure, undocumented, non-standard PDF format flags or the like, which only Adobe seems to know, and without their presence on the PDF file Reader simply rejects to save forms with fields filled in. From the link above one can think that the changes needed for OpenOffice to be able to create modifiable PDF forms were not that complex, and the outcome could be a great boost to PDF form usage and creation with only free software. Sad enough, the developers didn’t think so, and closed the issue as a WONTFIX.

If samba developers had opted for the same way of reasoning, at the first sign of a non well documented or not fully standard issue, samba implementation would have come to a stop. We all agree obscure vendor modifications of standards are evil, and shouldn’t exist, but a somewhat easy to do change could have enabled us to be free of an expensive and completely closed source program from Adobe. But now, anyone wanting to create fillable forms that can be saved modified have to spend big bucks and resort to closed source. That completely prevents wide adoption of PDF fillable forms in the open source world, except on those places where filled fields are directly sent to the Internet from inside the document.

I think I will never regret enough of not having time and knowledge to have been able to implement this feature. Oh, and being able to make it land the OpenOffice codebase, that seems to be another difficult thing to achieve.

Rant ended, excuse me, but I spent dozens of hours with this issue time ago, and it seems three years later nothing changed for the better. It’s frustrating

Should meet your PDF form creation needs most of the time.

Thanks
Aldi