Interfacing GUI applications..?

[Pierre Fortin]

Aandi Inston wrote:
> 
> claird at starbase.neosoft.com (Cameron Laird) wrote:
> 
> >In article <3B18032E.21AF631E at pfortin.com>,
> >Pierre Fortin  <pfortin at pfortin.com> wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I've been searching for a couple of days now and must resort asking for help...
> >>
> >>Does anyone know if it's possible to interface to a GUI application via a Python
> >>script?  I'm writing an application and would like to invoke Adobe's AcroRead
> >>(on Linux) and feed data to a "fill-in" PDF file.
>
> Why does this need scripting? Isn't this solvable in a supported way
> using FDF files?

Say what...?!  Are you suggesting I write code which generates hundreds of
values only to have to manually transcribe the results into a "fill-in" PDF
file...?  If so...  :^P

I am looking for a way to plug the results into a PDF file which is available
online (i.e, IRS forms).

Pierre

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