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Thank you to all who sent suggestions to the list and to me. The consensus
is that wanting still does not make it so. This is particularly the case,
because I want to produce a document which looks *exactly* like the .pdf
form - once I have filled in the blanks, so that I might then submit a
perfect application. Frankly, perfection is a headache.

Had the original .pdf file been saved to the server using Exchange, some
NETTrainers believe I would have been able to work with it. There is too
much black, too many boxes, and too much in the way of non-OCR formatting
for scanning, and, although several people suggested copying and pasting the
form into Word, that doesn't really produce a clone of the application - and
who wants their job application form to stand out badly, eh?

Thank you to Susan Larsson for actually taking the time to copy and send me
a near-copy of the application, and to Gerry Boyd for introducing me to
Ghostscript and this super site full of nifty pdf utilities,
http://www.pdfzone.com/

I am confident that only those who still own typewriters or lovely
handwritings will have filled the forms out beautifully, but they ain't me
babe. Fortunately, just as I was about to stick my head in the microwave, a
low-tech solution presented itself in the form of a patient friend who
learned cursive penmanship by making row after row of those slanty lines and
circles, while I was outside taking apart a clock.

Thank you all, again. Invisible lurking mode back on.

-Valerie

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