Alternative for acroread (Adobe Reader) in LINUX?

[Joachim Backes]

On 10/17/2014 06:23 PM, jd1008 wrote:
> 
> On 10/17/2014 09:54 AM, Joachim Backes wrote:
>> On 10/17/2014 05:46 PM, jd1008 wrote:
>>> On 10/17/2014 05:33 AM, Joachim Backes wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> this is a general question concerning LINUX and the Adobe Reader. In a
>>>> German Computer Magazine (C't) I read today that the acroread support
>>>> for linux obviously stops at version 9.5.5.
>>>>
>>>> I'm using acroread for outfillable forms containing columns with
>>>> computations. So my question: does anybody know any pdf tool in LINUX
>>>> supporting forms having columns with computations?
>>>>
>>>> Evince for example is able to fill out pdf forms, but cannot perform
>>>> computations.
>> This is the reason (and was part of my very first question in this  thread).
>>
>>>> Kind regards
>>>>
>>>> Joachim Backes
>>>>
>>> Why don;t you install evince??
>>>
>>
> FWIW, you might also be interested in
> pdfedit-0.4.5-11.fc20.x86_64
> qpdf-5.1.1-1.fc20.x86_64
> qpdfview-0.4.11-1.fc20.x86_64
> xpdf-3.04-2.fc20.x86_64
> pdf-tools-0.29a-15.fc20.noarch
> texlive-pdftex-bin-svn30845.0-5.20131226_r32488.fc20.x86_64
> texlive-pst-pdf-bin-svn7838.0-5.20131226_r32488.fc20.noarch
> texlive-thumbpdf-bin-svn6898.0-5.20131226_r32488.fc20.noarch
> 

Hi jd1008,

thank you for your hints, but installing FoxitReaderPortable (following
Poma's proposal) solved all problems.

Kind regards

Joachim Backes

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