
All documents types: Text, spreadsheets, slide-shows can be output as PDF like that. This is done with menu File - "Export as PDF.". OpenOffice can create PDF files that are essentially the printer output put into a file. Whew - Finally done! To avoid these complex steps it is recommended to use a different PDF viewer than Adobe Reader.

A pop up window "Deliver Your Signed Document" will appear, here click "Not Now". A "Save As" dialogue window will appear, change folder or file name if needed and click Save. A pop up window "Done Signing" may appear, here click confirm. A menu will appear to the right of the document. To simply save an updated form do the following steps: In the toolbar click on Sign. For Adobe Reader 10 and earlier versions there is a more convoluted system of add-on services that includes a signing and uploading to Adobe's servers. Note for Adobe Reader: Version 11 allows to save forms as described above. When updating of the fields are complete, save the form using menu File - Save. The example PDF can be opened and edited with a standard PDF viewer. To test an example of a PDF form download and open the following PDF file. The form makes it clear to the user what fields should be filled out and user editing does not risk breaking the layout of the form. This provides a simple practical method to publish forms that a user can fill out by the keyboard rather than on paper. Most standard PDF viewers can be used to edit the form. It is less known that PDF has an option which allow to create a form that can be edited and saved by the receiving user.

The described procedure works with LibreOffice as well.PDF is normally used as a final publishing format for sending documents that are complete and the receiver only read. \includegraphics to the header of your latex document. Your new pdf figure can be imported into your Latex document using this small bit of code: When you are done, press ok and investigate if the figure is cropped to your liking.Īfter having cropped the drawing to your liking, it can be exported to pdf by using File->Export as PDF… and clicking Export in the dialogue. This brings up the Page Setup dialog, where you can edit the width and height of the drawing. This is handled through the Page Setup dialog, which can be opened by Format->Page, as shown below: It is, however, easy to rectify, as it is easy to change the size of the paper to whatever dimensions you want. OpenOffice comes with a pdf exporter, but it does not automatically crop the page to only contain the figure. Another option is to take a screenshot of your figure, but that often looks ugly and does not scale very well. Many programs either do not come with the ability to export to pdf, and even if they do, they export the entire page, and not a cropped figure.

I usually use pdflatex, and, thus, prefer using figures in pdf format. There are numerous options for making figures to use with Latex.
