From: "Matt Connell (Gmail)" <matthewdconnell@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: acrobat reader
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2021 12:25:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b4a9b155816cb9cbe1e6139b73740e40094a714a.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sig2ri$6ti$2@ciao.gmane.io>
On Wed, 2021-09-22 at 20:14 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2021-09-22, Jack <ostroffjh@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > On 2021.09.22 15:06, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
> > > I have a pdf fillable form which I can only open in acrobat reader on
> > > Windows.
> > >
> > > Which package do I use to read these form on Gentoo?
> >
> > You should be able to read them with any PDF reader.
>
> Nope. It uses Javascript and dynamic XFA content. None of the
> third-party PDF readers support that.
>
>
> > Not all readers
> > will allow you to fill in the forms and save with the inserted data. I
> > use Okular for that, but the dependencies may be a lot if you don't
> > already run KDE. I wouldn't be surprised if the Gnome PDF reader
> > (evince?) can also do it.
>
> none of evince, atril or pdfstudio support dynamic XFA.
>
Firefox 93 brags[1] of support for XFA PDFs... maybe this is a possible
solution?
1: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/93.0/releasenotes/
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-22 19:06 [gentoo-user] acrobat reader thelma
2021-09-22 19:19 ` Jack
2021-09-22 19:26 ` Franz Trischberger
2021-09-22 19:29 ` thelma
2021-09-22 19:39 ` thelma
2021-09-22 19:58 ` Jack
2021-09-22 19:41 ` tastytea
2021-09-22 19:41 ` Charlotte Delenk
2021-09-22 20:07 ` [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] " thelma
2021-09-22 20:12 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2021-09-23 14:48 ` Laurence Perkins
2021-10-08 9:28 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2021-10-08 14:44 ` Matt Connell (Gmail)
2021-10-09 17:45 ` thelma
2021-09-22 20:14 ` Grant Edwards
2021-10-05 16:25 ` Matt Connell (Gmail) [this message]
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