From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Sep 6 22:04:23 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B29A0E19CB2 for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2017 22:04:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from va6bmj@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ua0-x236.google.com (mail-ua0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c08::236]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E86AC6C27B for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2017 22:04:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from va6bmj@gmail.com) Received: by mail-ua0-x236.google.com with SMTP id s15so16157561uag.1 for ; Wed, 06 Sep 2017 15:04:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=qSW3Hpd2ry5bMLo8J3sRBpGtZAjn53GNlsh03r/6eMg=; b=SwbWS4tBM0Nam9+09oB1v2ADm2FRSqQ7Xs+aQGfib+AA/DsN9dpptOkIf47bTMgQGF BrWv/whfrBBXlG4yE09ej3RbY+f/wPrYTObwaXy+vsFzFBuKot1/sYd3EyMuHsVqF+A6 /2wzweDr6WLjCfLqZ6tcdsOTgm4e+6l+6/0035jShgLssp7mrheVCdYXxrAbtVSktwQs zUlxzDwsUKHGQU5jC6jE5zXTBSGQ14VOnvM8WAJfgoG02FdPBSS/jWNN6RAqw4vQvlMy F/Bk6V9ueiigC7DcxF/IP3nkfjiWfgRcnpiC9dGujvfyKFQkRdfbNyB2GBtuUrZtcXNv bABg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=qSW3Hpd2ry5bMLo8J3sRBpGtZAjn53GNlsh03r/6eMg=; b=qnI15uomIBTMHhjezKr3a9WIDAnif/VK5p1/02WpWDr9jFKWJi2uudM02iG8e6EUYX qTbF9IWVsqnwbW54CqHmT6kXAhlpGaEyUCHWemSrnaqgjozjDPbjG38wxCxkmIbxEHJU +56bWZXzyLwcOfv7IC7vlGxrqeiTVRDnwIxmX9DsOsCf9h9T96rCaj2F+x/dND9tA8uN eC/O/wjS2mIukcs5swjIYX0R6zdYhcvDj4zlU38st73VJjBWG8UKkGlUOewnoaTYWbhi WOgrKRii1TOjB0UZ00tx7c+sgpY6IzObkVx866/AS55fwC6sBqoelSPr97f2aGgvAlh8 B44w== X-Gm-Message-State: AHPjjUiBati0aSUz6EAvFlwcl+ltyidH298gu05BssjvS+ewBkIY+/qi dxc9+aKc7+9i4Lf0Ko6uQP5pzw+OmA== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ADKCNb4jEysPVtMHfr7/ByNCSedmu7tPqdcj9hWzVZmIKdjYdXbpdXuzRF93AXRFo6mDUVNCdPCJmaGRgMlhZC5JRZQ= X-Received: by 10.176.70.153 with SMTP id r25mr396782uaa.74.1504735461891; Wed, 06 Sep 2017 15:04:21 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.176.25.18 with HTTP; Wed, 6 Sep 2017 15:04:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: B J Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 22:04:21 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: FreeBSD Equivalent To Adobe Acrobat To: Ben Woods Cc: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2017 22:04:23 -0000 > If you want to simply fill in existing forms in the PDF, that can normally > be accomplished in the more feature complete PDF readers such as Evince > (gtk gui) and Okular (qt gui). About 2 months ago, I posted a message asking about a FreeBSD program which will allow me to open and edit PDF files. Specifically, I wanted to use it to fill out my income tax returns as doing it that way will save me some time, rather than preparing two copies by hand. I did a bit of tinkering this afternoon and installed both Okular and Evince on a laptop that's running the current version of FreeBSD and XFCE. For some reason, Okular crashed, so I removed it. Evince, however, appeared to work for me when I tried it out on an old income tax form PDF file. (The file was designed to be used with Adobe Acrobat, by the way.) I was able to fill in some of the blanks and save a copy of the file. The numbers didn't quite align with the form layout, but they were in the right blank and were legible. Since the form was meant to be handled using Acrobat, I suppose some minor quirks like that are to be expected. So far, Evince looks like what I'm looking for. I've got a few months before tax time, so I'll have some opportunities to see if I can tweak the appearance of the inserted text. Thank you to everyone who responded to my original posting. Your comments and suggestions were quite helpful. B. M. Jatzeck