On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Jason Adams <adams...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/29/2014 11:22 AM, Артур Истомин wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 04:25:02PM +0100, Marc Espie wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 04:11:47PM +0100, Alexandre Ratchov wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 08:30:32AM -0600, David Coppa wrote:
>>>>> So here I am, asking on misc@...
>>>>>
>>>>> Do people using acroread-7.0.9 on i386 (compat_linux) still exist
>>>>> these days?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd like to rm print/acroread from cvs.
>>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>> 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...
>> Many consulates/embassy send pdf files with forms for information on
>> visas acquisition. When I last time filled it, no one open source pdf
>> reader can fill such forms.
>>
>
> More than one Opensource PDF reader allows you to fill out the forms.
> (evince for example)
Yes. Poppler has some, not so advanced, support for form filling.
> The problem is you can't save the forms and retain filled in data.
> However it is a simple matter to print them to a pdf file (pdf-writer).
Nice trick!
> Some forms have elaborate computation built in via scripts, and those won't
> work
> but the simple forms will.
Indeed.
Ciao,
David
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