Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Unknown Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 01:26:45 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 01:26:45 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="dfd804faf3ffc7824a1937eb60794f4b"; logging-data="3451"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+dFq1jW3knuYDGeoJHY80q7aBdAFgsJnA=" User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nRPWuIXhkbXtaLPSX4GuH/e3wRc= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:14489 On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:00:54 -0500, Robert Heller wrote: > At Fri, 10 Apr 2015 11:16:57 -0700 T wrote: > > >> On 04/09/2015 10:15 PM, William Unruh wrote: >> >> Is Acrobat reader just gone from Linux now? How do you substitute >> >> for it? -- snip -- > > I've had success using PdfTK to deal with US GOV (IRS) 'fill in form' > PDF files. > Thanks for mentioning 'fill in govmnt forms'! How does that system work; obviously designed by the big software vendors? Eg. when you need to 'attatch' several text-files to the pdf-form. Must you convert each such text-file to pdf? Or can you append the text-files as plain-text to the email-carrier which carries the pdf-attatchment/s? == TIA.