From: Thomas Holst <thomas.holst@de.bosch.com>
To: Torsten Wagner <torsten.wagner@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode Mailing List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Generate and fill PDF-forms by org-mode?!
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 09:18:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ywodfvu6rvvp@de.bosch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPaq-gOt=O3kvMYK9EFe2QkyF9+VxMOvGxqmX1AbRatdvf18AA@mail.gmail.com> (Torsten Wagner's message of "Thu, 15 Aug 2013 11:27:25 +0200")
Hi Torsten,
· On Aug 15 2013, Torsten Wagner <torsten.wagner@gmail.com> wrote:
> [How to fill in a form from org?]
I have only one form to fill in, print it, sign it and hand it in. But
this one is very boring :-(. The form is available as pdf or dot. Here
is how I do it.
When I was on Windows I used XL and word with a VBA macro. Now I
switched to Linux. I use org and LibreOffice.
I have all the information gathered in an org-table. A babel elisp block
extracts the information from this table. To fill in the form I use
=xte= which is part of the xautomation package [1]. =xte= is a
commandline tool which emulates key strokes and sends them to the active
window. I open the form (dot) in LibreOffice and execute the babel
block. The items to fill in the form are extracted from org-table and
sent to =xte= via `call-process-shell-command'.
This might not be the best way, but for me it works.
I also tried to use the pdf form in the same way. But it did not work
well. Neither in Adobe Reader nor in evince.
[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/xautomation/
--
Bis neulich ...
Thomas
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2013-08-15 9:27 Generate and fill PDF-forms by org-mode?! Torsten Wagner
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