[Scribus] Exporting PDF Forms

[Never you mind]

On 04/06/2007, at 12:42 AM, Maciej Hanski wrote:

> Never you mind napisa?(a):
>> I've just installed scribus 1.3.3.9 and followed the "Create a PDF
>> form" tutorial. The pdf that accompanies the tutorial works as
>> expected. When I open the tutorial file and do File->Export->Save as
>> PDF my file doesn't work as expected. The interactive fields don't
>> allow user input. I'd like to be able to create PDF forms for
>> interacting with web forms.
>>
> No good news here, since PDF forms support in Scribus 1.3.3.8, 1.3.3.9,
> and the current 1.3.10cvs has been totally broken for a couple of
> months, see these bug reports:
>
> http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=5442
> http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=5444
>
>
> You could try using Scribus 1.3.4 (unstable series) for generating PDF
> forms, but since 1.3.4 isn't recommended for production usage, we have 
> a
> kind of deadlock in this area.

That's bad news. I wanted to start building a lot of PDF forms and 
built Scribus specifically for that job. If I can't go forwards, can I 
go backwards to an earlier version (and how would I do that)?

malcolm


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