Re: [Pdfedit-support] PDFedit and IRS form 1040

[Joseph T. <jos...@gm...>]

On Wednesday 31 March 2010 12:56:54 am NS wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> I haven't tried this particular IRS 1040 PDF, but I've used OpenOffice
> w/ the PDF Import extension on some other IRS PDFs and it worked well.
> 
> Best regards,
> Nick
> 
>>snip<<> 

Thanks for your reply, Nick.  I had tried OO, with no luck, but after your msg 
I tried again.  The results were strange.  It wouldn't open the 1040, and in 
fact wouldn't open the Foxit-saved version, as well.  Nor would it open the 
.pdf that I had modified with PDFEdit.  It would open the versions of pages 
from the pdftk 'burst' operation on the Pub571 (to use the worksheets) but not 
the PDFEdit-ed versions (worksheet entries).  It would open 1040sb, and some 
other such form documents, but not all of them.  When I tried it on the 
instructions for 1040, it finally did open it, but it took over ten minutes to 
do it (Athlon 64 3000+, 2GB, Kubuntu9.10).  On most of these that did open, 
the formatting was seriously mucked-up, making them hard to read.  I didn't 
try any mods.

Incidentally, a better work-around than before seems to be to use pdftk to 
split the documents into pages and then use PDFEdit on them.  Faster, no 
problems with the bright-red Foxit Evaluation Copy watermarking.

Still puzzled as to what's going on.

Thanks again,
Joe