From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jul 6 05:00:07 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 56827D9E1B5 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2017 05:00:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ah@dreamchaser.org) Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org (ns.dreamchaser.org [66.109.141.57]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 22A377FD79 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2017 05:00:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ah@dreamchaser.org) Received: from breakaway.dreamchaser.org (breakaway [192.168.151.122]) by nightmare.dreamchaser.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id v664nZcE030692; Wed, 5 Jul 2017 22:49:35 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ah@dreamchaser.org) Subject: Re: FreeBSD Equivalent To Adobe Acrobat To: "Jack L." , FreeBSD References: From: Gary Aitken Message-ID: Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 22:49:26 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.6.2 (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [192.168.151.101]); Wed, 05 Jul 2017 22:49:35 -0600 (MDT) 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 05:00:07 -0000 On 07/05/17 02:33, Jack L. wrote: > Not sure if anyone mentioned okular, works great with pdf's. I believe the OP was looking for something to edit / fill-in the blanks on a form with; the pkg-descr file sounds like okular only reads, doesn't write. Gary > On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 3:45 AM, Carmel NY wrote: >> On Tue, 4 Jul 2017 00:32:12 +0000, B J stated: >> >> >> >>> 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. >>> >>> I'll try them again some time and see if I can't get something to work. >>> >>> BMJ >> >> I have run into the same problem in the past. My work requires me to >> work with PDF files on a regular basis. Because of that, I use Adobe >> Acrobat Pro DC. I lease it because it is cheap and because it offers a >> virtual cornucopia of options not available on any *.nix offering I have >> come across. If you need a product that "just works" and offers all of >> the options that you might need, there is really no other option >> available.