Fill out forms of included pdf

Asked May 02 '20 at 12:37

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A minimalistic example would be:

\documentclass[12pt]{scrartcl}

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[final]{pdfpages}

\begin{document}
\includepdf[]{fillable.pdf}
% fill the forms ...
\end{document}

Where filable.pdf has at least one text form, which can be filled in using a PDF viewer/editor.

Is there a way to fill in the text form with LaTeX?

asked May 02 '20 at 12:37

upe

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Why do you want to do this in LaTeX? There are scriptable PDF tools that can handle this. – Matthew Leingang May 02 '20 at 12:50
@Matthew Leingang I currently work with Overleaf and using external tools would be inconvenient, but probably better than filling everything out manually. Thanks for the tip. – upe May 02 '20 at 13:36
I didn't manage to fill out forms with LaTeX yet, but I was able to achieve what I wanted using the overpic package. One can write on a PDF file like on an image as described in this post. – upe May 05 '20 at 18:03
Yes, that's an option. – Matthew Leingang May 05 '20 at 18:56
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Also, it appears Overleaf allows compiling with the --shell-escape option, so you might be able to drive a script using pdftk to fill in the form fields. – Matthew Leingang May 05 '20 at 18:58
See also pdf - Filled out form fields are left blank when using /includepdf - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange, but not exactly the same question. – user202729 May 28 '22 at 10:57

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