In message <http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=141459553404542&w=1> Alexandre Ratchov wrote [[about acroread]] > I don't see the point of keeping it, while we have other working > pdf readers. I don't even understand why we have it at all. OK to > remove it.
In message <http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=141459635204943&w=1> Marc Espie replied > You don't use pdf form filling. Over the last few years, I've seen > people want to do strange things with pdf. Most things related > to display work with default tools. afaik, password did not work > with anything BUT acrobat reader AND now mutools. > > Form filling, in some cases (german taxes, iirr) does NOT work with > other tools... +1 on Marc's point. And US tax forms too. (Canada doesn't yet force the use of fillable-pdf-forms, so I donno about those.) Not to mention the new-member-application forms on a certain Credit Union I just joined.... There's still a place in the computing world for Windoze machines. :( -- -- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply]" <jth...@astro.indiana-zebra.edu> Dept of Astronomy & IUCSS, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA "There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time." -- George Orwell, "1984"
