From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Jul 11 22:46:09 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 5856FDAD635 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 22:46:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mailrelay14.qsc.de (mailrelay14.qsc.de [212.99.163.154]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "*.antispameurope.com", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B03276EE69 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2017 22:46:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de ([213.148.129.14]) by mailrelay14.qsc.de; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 00:45:58 +0200 Received: from r56.edvax.de (port-92-195-70-185.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.70.185]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BA4513CC3F; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 00:45:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r56.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r56.edvax.de (8.14.5/8.14.5) with SMTP id v6BMjuHe003201; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 00:45:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 00:45:56 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Shane Ambler Cc: B J , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD Equivalent To Adobe Acrobat Message-Id: <20170712004556.72dc63d5.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <42f8fa2c-a931-0323-203b-8e80494daa8b@ShaneWare.Biz> References: <42f8fa2c-a931-0323-203b-8e80494daa8b@ShaneWare.Biz> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-cloud-security-sender: freebsd@edvax.de X-cloud-security-recipient: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-cloud-security-Virusscan: CLEAN X-cloud-security-disclaimer: This E-Mail was scanned by E-Mailservice on mailrelay14.qsc.de with 3D286683787 X-cloud-security-connect: mx01.qsc.de[213.148.129.14], TLS=1, IP=213.148.129.14 X-cloud-security: scantime:.1224 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: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 22:46:09 -0000 On Thu, 6 Jul 2017 12:57:02 +0930, Shane Ambler wrote: > On 04/07/2017 10:02, B J wrote: > > > I tried several and those you mentioned might have been among them. > > None of them appeared to fill in blanks, assuming, of course, I did > > things right in the first place. For each one, I would get a message, > > embedded in the file I was looking at, which said something about me > > having to use Acrobat. > > Could depend on the specific pdf file, pdfs can have some adobe only > features such as XFA and javascript, as these aren't part of the > official spec I expect they aren't supported in free software. At least XFA seems to be supported by Okular, but normal forms (text input fields) are supported by Evince and Okular; gv and xpdf do not support them, but usually can read and print the forms (with blank fields of course). So the "Acrobat Reader" or whatever it is called this year is not really needed anymore, except you get really non-standard PDF files that require special proprietary commercial software. I haven't tried to get the "Windows" version of the mentioned reader running with wine, maybe that is possible for such kinds of "worst case PDF file"... ;-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...