PDF viewers: suggestions? reviews?

[Temlakos]

Everyone:

Funny, the things one learns after making the first clean install in ten 
or more iterations of Fedora.

For instance, that Adobe long ago abandoned the Adobe ("Acrobat") Reader 
for Linux, and the nspluginwrapper project.

So that now, if you still want to use Adobe for Linux, you have to save 
an old rpm and install it directly. And do it every time you reinstall 
Fedora--or at least reinstall it cleanly.

I need advice on whether I can abandon Adobe Reader completely, and what 
to use instead.

I use it all the time for certain PDF's that come with form fields that 
you fill out. Not all PDF viewers--and not the PDF viewer native to 
Firefox--support form filling. Without form filling, I have to fill in 
forms by hand--and my fist is a bit of a strain on anyone's eyes, 
especially those of a bureaucrat or his confidential secretary. So I 
need form filling.

That aside, I'd love to have something that opens seemlessly in any 
browser window.

For the record, I use KDE. But I'll still use any GNOME products that 
still open in KDE.

Temlakos

[William Oliver]

On Thu, 2017-12-28 at 07:36 -0500, Temlakos wrote:
> Everyone:

[snip]
> I need advice on whether I can abandon Adobe Reader completely, and
> what 
> to use instead.
>
> I use it all the time for certain PDF's that come with form fields
> that 
> you fill out. Not all PDF viewers--and not the PDF viewer native to 
> Firefox--support form filling. Without form filling, I have to fill
> in 
> forms by hand--and my fist is a bit of a strain on anyone's eyes, 
> especially those of a bureaucrat or his confidential secretary. So I 
> need form filling.
> [snip]

I use Okular the most.  However, I have the same problem you have --
some forms work, and some forms do not.   Most of the time, it works
OK, but it seems that there's always some new thing in Adobe that
Okular and the others haven't caught up with, and those companies and
agencies that like to use the latest Adobe features make forms that
just don't work in linux.  I have about an 85% success rate for PDF
forms using Okular.

billo

[Doug]

On 12/28/2017 07:36 AM, Temlakos wrote:
> Everyone:
>
> Funny, the things one learns after making the first clean install in 
> ten or more iterations of Fedora.
>
> For instance, that Adobe long ago abandoned the Adobe ("Acrobat") 
> Reader for Linux, and the nspluginwrapper project.
>
> So that now, if you still want to use Adobe for Linux, you have to 
> save an old rpm and install it directly. And do it every time you 
> reinstall Fedora--or at least reinstall it cleanly.
>
> I need advice on whether I can abandon Adobe Reader completely, and 
> what to use instead.
>
> I use it all the time for certain PDF's that come with form fields 
> that you fill out. Not all PDF viewers--and not the PDF viewer native 
> to Firefox--support form filling. Without form filling, I have to fill 
> in forms by hand--and my fist is a bit of a strain on anyone's eyes, 
> especially those of a bureaucrat or his confidential secretary. So I 
> need form filling.
>
> That aside, I'd love to have something that opens seemlessly in any 
> browser window.
>
> For the record, I use KDE. But I'll still use any GNOME products that 
> still open in KDE.
>
> Temlakos

I think Master PDF Editor 4 will do what you want. It runs fine on my 
PCLOS KDE 5 (and ran on KDE 4 also). I haven't tried to fill in 
anything, but it is an *editor* so it should work. And it is available

in RPM format, which should make it easy for a Fedora user to install.

--doug

[Rami Rosen]

Hi,
I use Evince as a PDF viewer under GNome.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince
There is  rpm for Fedora.
I cannot comment about form fillings.

Regards,
Rami Rosen
http://ramirose.wixsite.com/ramirosen

בתאריך 28 בדצמ׳ 2017 21:40,‏ "Doug"  כתב:
> On 12/28/2017 07:36 AM, Temlakos wrote:
>
> Everyone:
>
> Funny, the things one learns after making the first clean install in ten
> or more iterations of Fedora.
>
> For instance, that Adobe long ago abandoned the Adobe ("Acrobat") Reader
> for Linux, and the nspluginwrapper project.
>
> So that now, if you still want to use Adobe for Linux, you have to save an
> old rpm and install it directly. And do it every time you reinstall
> Fedora--or at least reinstall it cleanly.
>
> I need advice on whether I can abandon Adobe Reader completely, and what
> to use instead.
>
> I use it all the time for certain PDF's that come with form fields that
> you fill out. Not all PDF viewers--and not the PDF viewer native to
> Firefox--support form filling. Without form filling, I have to fill in
> forms by hand--and my fist is a bit of a strain on anyone's eyes,
> especially those of a bureaucrat or his confidential secretary. So I need
> form filling.
>
> That aside, I'd love to have something that opens seemlessly in any
> browser window.
>
> For the record, I use KDE. But I'll still use any GNOME products that
> still open in KDE.
>
> Temlakos
>
> I think Master PDF Editor 4 will do what you want. It runs fine on my
> PCLOS KDE 5 (and ran on KDE 4 also). I haven't tried to fill in anything,
> but it is an *editor* so it should work. And it is available
>
> in RPM format, which should make it easy for a Fedora user to install.
>
> --doug
>
> users mailing list -- [e-mail]
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[Go Canes]

I use okular under KDE.  For PDF forms that it can't handle, I resort
to using a WIndows VM.  But I don't think I have had form issues for a
while.

On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 4:29 AM, Rami Rosen  wrote:
> Hi,
> I use Evince as a PDF viewer under GNome.
> https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince
> There is  rpm for Fedora.
> I cannot comment about form fillings.
>
> Regards,
> Rami Rosen
> http://ramirose.wixsite.com/ramirosen
>
> בתאריך 28 בדצמ׳ 2017 21:40,‏ "Doug"  כתב:
> > On 12/28/2017 07:36 AM, Temlakos wrote:
> >
> > Everyone:
> >
> > Funny, the things one learns after making the first clean install in ten
> > or more iterations of Fedora.
> >
> > For instance, that Adobe long ago abandoned the Adobe ("Acrobat") Reader
> > for Linux, and the nspluginwrapper project.
> >
> > So that now, if you still want to use Adobe for Linux, you have to save an
> > old rpm and install it directly. And do it every time you reinstall
> > Fedora--or at least reinstall it cleanly.
> >
> > I need advice on whether I can abandon Adobe Reader completely, and what
> > to use instead.
> >
> > I use it all the time for certain PDF's that come with form fields that
> > you fill out. Not all PDF viewers--and not the PDF viewer native to
> > Firefox--support form filling. Without form filling, I have to fill in forms
> > by hand--and my fist is a bit of a strain on anyone's eyes, especially those
> > of a bureaucrat or his confidential secretary. So I need form filling.
> >
> > That aside, I'd love to have something that opens seemlessly in any
> > browser window.
> >
> > For the record, I use KDE. But I'll still use any GNOME products that
> > still open in KDE.
> >
> > Temlakos
> >
> > I think Master PDF Editor 4 will do what you want. It runs fine on my
> > PCLOS KDE 5 (and ran on KDE 4 also). I haven't tried to fill in anything,
> > but it is an editor so it should work. And it is available
> >
> > in RPM format, which should make it easy for a Fedora user to install.
> >
> > --doug
> >
> > users mailing list -- [e-mail]
> > To unsubscribe send an email to [e-mail]
>
> users mailing list -- [e-mail]
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