From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jul 6 03:32:15 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 BA3BBD9C724 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2017 03:32:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from FreeBSD@shaneware.biz) Received: from ipmail07.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail07.adl2.internode.on.net [150.101.137.131]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD7997D89B for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2017 03:32:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from FreeBSD@shaneware.biz) Received: from ppp121-45-5-29.bras1.adl4.internode.on.net (HELO leader.local) ([121.45.5.29]) by ipmail07.adl2.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 06 Jul 2017 12:57:04 +0930 Subject: Re: FreeBSD Equivalent To Adobe Acrobat To: B J References: Cc: freebsd-questions From: Shane Ambler Message-ID: <42f8fa2c-a931-0323-203b-8e80494daa8b@ShaneWare.Biz> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 12:57:02 +0930 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 03:32:15 -0000 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. As it has been a few years since I used a pdf form I was curious and searched for some samples and found both okular and evince allowed me to fill in and save the forms, one form I got didn't display form data in evince even though I could see it while editing. I found that okular has better annotation tools (Tools->Review) which includes an inline text annotation which would work if you are printing the form but may not work if you are submitting it electronically. -- FreeBSD - the place to B...Software Developing Shane Ambler