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Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct?

From T <T@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct?
Date 2015-04-10 16:01 -0700
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On 04/10/2015 02:00 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Fri, 10 Apr 2015 11:16:57 -0700 T <T@invalid.invalid> 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?
>>
>>> xpdf, okular, gv...
>>
>>
>>>> Me personally, I paid for Qoppa's PDF Studio Pro.  And
>>>>> I use the hell out of it and love.  Worth every cent
>>>>> of the 125.00 U$D.
>>
>>> Excellent. good buy.
>>>
>>
>> The one downside to PDF Studio is that it won't read
>> Dynamic XFA documents.  So, I have to use my old
>> Acrobat Reader for them.
>>
>> An example (Nevada Sales Tax form):
>>
>> http://tax.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/taxnvgov/Content/Forms/Sales_and_Use_Tax_Return_07-01-09.pdf
>>
>>
>> Be interesting to see how you guys with evince, xpdf,
>> okular, gv, do with the above.  Usually a Dynamic XFA
>> will take down third party pdf viewers.  (I keep asking
>> Qoppa [PDF Studio] for support and they keep saying
>> "no".  But, they do fix everything else I find, which
>> makes them my heroes.)
>
> Have you tried PdfTK?
>
> http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/
>
> (RPMFORGE has RPM's for pdftk in their repositories for RHEL/CentOS.)
>
> I've had success using PdfTK to deal with US GOV (IRS) 'fill in form' PDF
> files.

IRS forms are Static PDF.   I will look at pdfTK.  Thank you!

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Is Acrobat Reader defunct? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-09 19:15 -0700
  Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Vilmos Soti <vilmos@soti.ca> - 2015-04-09 20:35 -0700
    Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2015-04-09 22:14 -0700
  Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2015-04-10 05:15 +0000
    Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2015-04-10 04:45 -0500
    Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-04-10 07:20 -0500
    Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-10 11:16 -0700
      Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-04-10 16:00 -0500
        Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-10 16:01 -0700
          Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-10 16:01 -0700
            Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-10 16:03 -0700
              Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-04-10 20:31 -0500
              Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-04-11 21:04 -0500
                Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-11 21:15 -0700
        Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2015-04-12 01:26 +0000
          Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-04-11 21:04 -0500
        Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-04-11 22:35 -0700
          Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2015-04-12 07:44 -0500
            Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2015-04-12 10:39 -0500
  Re: Is Acrobat Reader defunct? ray carter <ray@zianet.com> - 2015-04-10 15:39 +0000

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