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On Wed, 2021-09-22 at 20:14 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> On 2021-09-22, Jack <ostroffjh@×××××××××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> > On 2021.09.22 15:06, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote: |
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> > > I have a pdf fillable form which I can only open in acrobat reader on |
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> > > Windows. |
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> > > Which package do I use to read these form on Gentoo? |
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> > You should be able to read them with any PDF reader. |
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> Nope. It uses Javascript and dynamic XFA content. None of the |
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> third-party PDF readers support that. |
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> > Not all readers |
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> > will allow you to fill in the forms and save with the inserted data. I |
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> > use Okular for that, but the dependencies may be a lot if you don't |
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> > already run KDE. I wouldn't be surprised if the Gnome PDF reader |
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> > (evince?) can also do it. |
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> none of evince, atril or pdfstudio support dynamic XFA. |
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Firefox 93 brags[1] of support for XFA PDFs... maybe this is a possible |
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solution? |
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1: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/93.0/releasenotes/ |
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