Adobereader won't install

poma pomidorabelisima at gmail.com
Tue Jul 1 05:18:29 UTC 2014


Actually filling interactive forms in the above mentioned documents is possible by the apps with pdf support based on poppler, Evince & Okular.
Let's say one difference I noticed when filling the form e.g. date input, unlike FoxitReader, it ain't controllable in Evince & Okular. Nevertheless they are useful for this task.


= Evince - Adobe reader - Comparison Notes =
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince/ComparingEvinceAcroread

Advanced Function
12. Fill in PDF form
"Evince has a basic forms support. Some features are still missing like spell checking and signature fields are not supported yet."
Needs improvement


= Okular - Development News =
http://okular.kde.org/news.php

"This release introduces new features like undo/redo support for forms and annotations and configurable review tools."

"Possibility to save a PDF document with the changes to the form fields"

"Improved support for forms"


= Poppler - libpoppler =
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppler_(software)

"As of the version 0.18 release in 2011, the poppler library represents a
complete implementation of ISO 32000-1,[not in citation given] the PDF format
standard, and is the first major free PDF library to support its forms (only
Acroforms but not full XFA forms[5][6]) and annotations features.[3]"

Features
"Poppler partially supports interactive documents using JavaScript,[13] annotations, and Acroforms. It does not support
rendering of full XFA forms.[5]"


poma




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