> It's not clear to me what you mean by saying that the website requires it.
Perhaps the best illustration of what I was posting about can be seen by going
to the U.S. Postal Service website (https://cns.usps.com/go) and starting to
create a "Click-N-Ship" Priority Mail label. You will be prompted that you
need Adobe Acrobat.
(I think you may have to create a user account -- i.e., login ID and password
-- if you don't already have one. But perhaps you can just create a disposable
ID if you never plan to use USPS services.)
My post was prompted by the question: Why specifically do I need to use
Acrobat instead of SKIM for this purpose?
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--- On Sun, 6/30/13, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Skim-app-users] Any SKIM 'plug-in' that allows it be used at
websites that want ADOBE?
To: "For general discussion about using Skim"
<[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, June 30, 2013, 5:08 PM
It's not clear to me what you mean by saying that the website requires it.
Generally, website don't require a program. Or at least, they should not. I
would not know how they would require it. Websites offer data, like PDF. And
how that is handled is determined by your *browser*, not the website (or it
should.) So this seems more like a question about your browser. I.e. you should
tell your browser what it should do. That has nothing directly to do with Adobe
or Skim. Now if it is about plugins, then you cannot do it, because there is no
plugin for Skim. You can only tell your browser to open a PDF in Skim
externally.
Christiaan
On Jun 30, 2013, at 19:09, Michael Kraft wrote:
Thanks but I'm not sure why you brought up operating system defaults, as they
weren't relevant to my inquiry.
In a word, I just wanted to know whether any plug-in or other add-on would
allow SKIM to substitute for ADODE (Acrobat) when a website 'required' the
latter. Again, a case in point is printing out Priority Mail labels at
usps.gov.
> My advice: don't ever use PDF forms!
Hard to never use PDF forms if the website requires them for what you want to
do.
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--- On Sun, 6/30/13, Randy Parker <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Randy Parker <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Skim-app-users] Any SKIM 'plug-in' that allows it be used at
websites that want ADOBE?
To: "For general discussion about using Skim"
<[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, June 30, 2013, 11:34 AM
Your computer's operating system assigns which program should be run to open
particular filetypes, not Skim.
In "Finder", right-click on a PDF file, select "Get Info", and set "Open with: "
But my experience is that PDF forms actually DO require certain Adobe programs
to correctly manipulate the fields. I can't remember if it was the standard
"Acrobat" or a some kind of enhanced Acrobat. I base this on my son's Boy
Scout Eagle form 2 years ago: some non-Adobe programs would open it and allow
typing, but the entered text would not reliably "save". I was sure my son was
doing something wrong until I did it a few times myself. (such fun typing in 8
pages of content a couple of times, only to have it completely lost both times
!). I tried a couple of other PDF programs as well, with bad results.
My advice: don't ever use PDF forms!
I never got to the bottom of the problem, but I suspect there are proprietary
quirks that are not part of the PDF standard.
On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 11:01 PM, Michael Kraft <[email protected]> wrote:
Certain websites (government websites, in particular, including the USPS)
require the user to have ADOBE installed in order to complete forms fill-in
that are converted to PDFs. (Example: ADOBE required to create a USPS
'Priority Mail' mailing label)
Is there any way to configure SKIM so that PDF’s that “require” ADOBE can use
SKIM instead?
Thanks.
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