Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 22:04:21 +0000 From: B J <va6bmj@gmail.com> To: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Equivalent To Adobe Acrobat Message-ID: <CAP7QzkOVcCh%2Bb_SRUmjjyOu-Mg5hHrZ073vhT1ZPkaAQ8H08qw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAOc73CDbkNk1T%2B19K3BKkeR1jThZOLAF7S-nmp1aaSLVyEwKkw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAP7QzkMsYeuQc3yidsYDfEC4_FR1FdOk3_tAEQw5FFSZWP1i5g@mail.gmail.com> <CAOc73CDbkNk1T%2B19K3BKkeR1jThZOLAF7S-nmp1aaSLVyEwKkw@mail.gmail.com>
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<snip> > 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
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