Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 21:44:09 -0600 From: The Doctor <doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> To: Shane Ambler <FreeBSD@ShaneWare.Biz> Cc: B J <va6bmj@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Equivalent To Adobe Acrobat Message-ID: <20170706034409.GA72649@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca> In-Reply-To: <42f8fa2c-a931-0323-203b-8e80494daa8b@ShaneWare.Biz> References: <CAP7QzkMsYeuQc3yidsYDfEC4_FR1FdOk3_tAEQw5FFSZWP1i5g@mail.gmail.com> <CAOc73CDbkNk1T%2B19K3BKkeR1jThZOLAF7S-nmp1aaSLVyEwKkw@mail.gmail.com> <CAP7QzkMquosvs9ujCPabe9hTw=veqXymAO1C3fQBheytd2j-Aw@mail.gmail.com> <42f8fa2c-a931-0323-203b-8e80494daa8b@ShaneWare.Biz>
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On Thu, Jul 06, 2017 at 12:57:02PM +0930, Shane Ambler wrote: > On 04/07/2017 10:02, B J wrote: > > > I tried several and those you mentioned might have been among them. > > None of them appeared to fill in blanks, assuming, of course, I did > > things right in the first place. For each one, I would get a message, > > embedded in the file I was looking at, which said something about me > > having to use Acrobat. > > Could depend on the specific pdf file, pdfs can have some adobe only > features such as XFA and javascript, as these aren't part of the > official spec I expect they aren't supported in free software. > > As it has been a few years since I used a pdf form I was curious and > searched for some samples and found both okular and evince allowed me to > fill in and save the forms, one form I got didn't display form data in > evince even though I could see it while editing. > > I found that okular has better annotation tools (Tools->Review) which > includes an inline text annotation which would work if you are printing > the form but may not work if you are submitting it electronically. > > Anyone porting XPDF? > -- > FreeBSD - the place to B...Software Developing > > Shane Ambler > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Member - Liberal International This is doctor@@nl2k.ab.ca Ici doctor@@nl2k.ab.ca Yahweh, Queen & country!Never Satan President Republic!Beware AntiChrist rising! https://www.empire.kred/ROOTNK?t=94a1f39b Look at Psalms 14 and 53 on Atheism Talk Sense to a fool and he calls you foolish - Euripides
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