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Is there any way you can type your information on a PDF application rather than writing it?

Asked by justanswerthequestion (106points) March 24th, 2010

Instead of printing that paper and then writing you name and address, is there any way you can type it on the application and then print it?

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marinelife's avatar

Some PDF files (like government forms) are made so that you can type your responses into them.

Find the form online and check.

anartist's avatar

If the PDF was set up to enter type you can.
If you can’t do that and just want to type on it as a picture— sort of like rolling the printed form into the typewriter [remember any of that?]—insert the pdf into word as a background image and type on that.

lilikoi's avatar

Like others said, if the PDF is designed as a form, yes you can type on it.

Another way to type on a PDF is to use a program like Acrobat Pro that allows you to create new fields to type in. This is probably more time consuming than simply printing and hand writing.

Yet another way of doing it is to open the PDF file in a photo editing software like GIMP, and add text to the “image” as you would add text to any other image. This works fine, but is also time consuming.

Still, if you don’t have a printer and need to transmit the file electronically, it can be worth the effort.

Nullo's avatar

You print it off and feed the document into a typewriter. Problem solved.

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