I had a word document that I edited in writer to make it a fillable PDF. I exported it to PDF and it works great. Now I want to make changes. I open the fillable PDF with draw make the changes and Export it to a new file name. However, now the new file is not fillable. Is there a way to edit the fillable PDF file and export it as a fillable PDF or do I need to keep the word document, edit that and then export a new Fillable PDF file?
Always store your important documents in the native ODF file formats. Then you can create (save or export) it into foreign file formats, but you can edit/modify the native format file. And always create timestamped Backup versions.
Do you have a copy of the Writer document converted from the Word document (or at least the original .doc/.docx document)?
Yes I have the original word document. I was just hoping I didn’t have to keep two copies, the original for future editing and the PDF to publishing. I was hoping there was a way to edit the PDF and still have it be fillable.
Thanks for your response.
Try to use the hybrid PDF feature of the LibreOffice. That allows you to store an ODF document embedded into a PDF document.
Then you can open the file in the Writer application for editing/modifying, and you can open the PDF file to fill-in in a well featured PDF reader software.