gimp default .pdf import uses 100 pixels per inch. not a very realistic default. 300 is still minimal, but entirely better. On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 5:26 PM gregrwm <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote: > nice, even tho curiously the manual page makes no mention of its ability > to fill in .pdf forms. > > however on the medicare form i'm looking at currently, there's no box to > enter anything where the form asks for my signature. so for that, it looks > like i'm back to square one. i can print it, i can use gimp, but gimp > curiously, disappointingly, makes everything fuzzy. > > maybe there's a way to add a signature using something other than gimp? > or a tweak to gimp so it doesn't make the page all blurry? or something > even more simple i'm not seeing yet? > > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 11:04 AM gerry <gsker at skerbitz.org> wrote: > >> qpdfview >> >> >> On Thu, 18 Mar 2021, gregrwm wrote: >> > how do folks here fill out .pdf forms? print them? or something that >> doesn't require paper? maybe something online? >> > >> > firefox(nightly) shows me the .pdf form nicely, but then, to fill it >> out, first i bring it into gimp. already it doesn't look so >> > nice. looks fuzzy, like out of focus. this is on lubuntu focal. from >> gimp i can save it and then work with it in libreoffice, >> > but it's still the blurry image gimp gave me. >> > >> > what do other folks do? > > -- this concludes test 42 of big bang inflation dynamics. in the advent of an actual universe, further instructions will be provided. 000000000000000000000042 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20210319/a046a6ba/attachment.htm>