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    From thelma@sys-concept.com@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 22 21:10:02 2021
    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?

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  • From thelma@sys-concept.com@21:1/5 to thelma@sys-concept.com on Wed Sep 22 21:40:02 2021
    On 9/22/21 1:29 PM, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
    On 9/22/21 1:19 PM, Jack 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.  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.

    Jack

    I have evince, it will not open it.

    This is the form I'm trying to open:

    https://cfr.forms.gov.ab.ca/Form/AHC0102.pdf

    I can open this file on Windows Acrobat Reader but when I try to save/print it as a PDF file via PDFcreator I'm getting some Ghoastscript error.

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  • From Jack@21:1/5 to thelma@sys-concept.com on Wed Sep 22 21:20:02 2021
    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. 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.

    Jack

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  • From thelma@sys-concept.com@21:1/5 to Jack on Wed Sep 22 21:30:01 2021
    On 9/22/21 1:19 PM, Jack 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.  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.

    Jack

    I have evince, it will not open it.

    This is the form I'm trying to open:

    https://cfr.forms.gov.ab.ca/Form/AHC0102.pdf

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  • From Franz Trischberger@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 22 21:30:01 2021
    Jack: okular (and poppler apps in general) won't open some (all?) files
    with filled in forms.
    I had many such files in the past where I had to use acrobat...

    Am Mi., 22. Sept. 2021 um 22:19 Uhr schrieb Jack < ostroffjh@users.sourceforge.net>:

    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. 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.

    Jack



    <div dir="ltr">Jack: okular (and poppler apps in general) won&#39;t open some (all?) files with filled in forms.<div>I had many such files in the past where I had to use acrobat...</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">
    Am Mi., 22. Sept. 2021 um 22:19 Uhr schrieb Jack &lt;<a href="mailto:ostroffjh@users.sourceforge.net">ostroffjh@users.sourceforge.net</a>&gt;:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204)
    ;padding-left:1ex">On 2021.09.22 15:06, <a href="mailto:thelma@sys-concept.com" target="_blank">thelma@sys-concept.com</a> wrote:<br>
    &gt; I have a pdf fillable form which I can only open in acrobat reader on  <br>
    &gt; Windows.<br>
    &gt; <br>
    &gt; Which package do I use to read these form on Gentoo?<br>
    You should be able to read them with any PDF reader.  Not all readers  <br> will allow you to fill in the forms and save with the inserted data.  I  <br> use Okular for that, but the dependencies may be a lot if you don&#39;t  <br> already run KDE.  I wouldn&#39;t be surprised if the Gnome PDF reader  <br> (evince?) can also do it.<br>

    Jack<br>

    </blockquote></div>

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  • From Jack@21:1/5 to thelma@sys-concept.com on Wed Sep 22 22:00:01 2021
    On 2021.09.22 15:39, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
    On 9/22/21 1:29 PM, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
    On 9/22/21 1:19 PM, Jack 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. 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.

    Jack

    I have evince, it will not open it.

    This is the form I'm trying to open:

    https://cfr.forms.gov.ab.ca/Form/AHC0102.pdf

    I can open this file on Windows Acrobat Reader but when I try to
    save/print it as a PDF file via PDFcreator I'm getting some
    Ghoastscript error.
    Yes, I see that okular (21.04.3) won't open it. Actually, okular does
    say "This document has XFA forms, which are currently unsupported.
    It's also odd that the message which is displayed implies that Acrobat
    Reader is available for Linux, even though it's not available.

    How is Ghostscript involved on Windows?

    Is there any hope of complaining to the Alberta government that there
    is no access to the form without being forced to use proprietary
    software? (Probably not, but it's a thought.)

    Finally, if you search for "acrobat xfa forms linux" you will find some suggestions.

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  • From tastytea@21:1/5 to thelma@sys-concept.com on Wed Sep 22 21:50:01 2021
    On 2021-09-22 13:29-0600 thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:

    On 9/22/21 1:19 PM, Jack 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.  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.

    Jack

    I have evince, it will not open it.

    This is the form I'm trying to open:

    https://cfr.forms.gov.ab.ca/Form/AHC0102.pdf


    Okular 21.04.3 won't work either, I got a message box claiming I need
    a newer version of Acrobat Reader and the content of the PDF is a
    placeholder that reads “[…] your PDF viewer may not be able to display
    this type of document […]”.

    A warning above the document says that the document contains XFA forms
    that are not supported.

    Kind regards, tastytea

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  • From Grant Edwards@21:1/5 to thelma@sys-concept.com on Wed Sep 22 22:20:01 2021
    On 2021-09-22, thelma@sys-concept.com <thelma@sys-concept.com> wrote:

    This is the form I'm trying to open:

    https://cfr.forms.gov.ab.ca/Form/AHC0102.pdf

    That's an abomination that use Javascript and dynamic XFA content:

    https://kbpdfstudio.qoppa.com/livecycle-dynamic-xfa-forms/

    Whoever designed something like that for use by the general public
    needs to have thier career terminated before they cause any more
    damage.

    --
    Grant

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  • From Grant Edwards@21:1/5 to Jack on Wed Sep 22 22:20:02 2021
    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.

    --
    Grant

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  • From Matt Connell (Gmail)@21:1/5 to Grant Edwards on Tue Oct 5 18:30:01 2021
    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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  • From Nikos Chantziaras@21:1/5 to thelma@sys-concept.com on Fri Oct 8 11:30:01 2021
    On 22/09/2021 22:29, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
    I have evince, it will not open it.

    This is the form I'm trying to open:

    https://cfr.forms.gov.ab.ca/Form/AHC0102.pdf

    I just opened this URL in firefox-bin-93.0, which claims support for
    "XFA-based forms", and indeed I can fill it out just fine.

    So finally solved, I suppose?

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  • From Matt Connell (Gmail)@21:1/5 to Nikos Chantziaras on Fri Oct 8 16:50:02 2021
    On Fri, 2021-10-08 at 12:28 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
    On 22/09/2021 22:29, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
    I have evince, it will not open it.

    This is the form I'm trying to open:

    https://cfr.forms.gov.ab.ca/Form/AHC0102.pdf

    I just opened this URL in firefox-bin-93.0, which claims support for "XFA-based forms", and indeed I can fill it out just fine.

    Good to know. Credit is due to Mozilla for their work on pdf.js I
    suppose.

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  • From thelma@sys-concept.com@21:1/5 to Nikos Chantziaras on Sat Oct 9 19:50:01 2021
    On 10/8/21 3:28 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
    On 22/09/2021 22:29, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:
    I have evince, it will not open it.

    This is the form I'm trying to open:

    https://cfr.forms.gov.ab.ca/Form/AHC0102.pdf

    I just opened this URL in firefox-bin-93.0, which claims support for "XFA-based forms", and indeed I can fill it out just fine.

    So finally solved, I suppose?

    Thanks for pointing it out. So this is another solution; nice!

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