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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 2015-04-11 21:15 -0700
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On 04/11/2015 07:04 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Fri, 10 Apr 2015 16:03:37 -0700 T <T@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 04/10/2015 04:01 PM, T wrote:
>>> On 04/10/2015 04:01 PM, T wrote:
>>>> 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!
>>>>
>>>
>>> oops.  Static XFA
>>
>>
>> Hi Robert,
>>
>> Have you tried PdfTK with that Dynamic XFA link I provided?
>>
>> http://tax.nv.gov/uploadedFiles/taxnvgov/Content/Forms/Sales_and_Use_Tax_Return_07-01-09.pdf
>
> PdfTk does not seem to handle this file.  xpdf does not like it either.

Hi Robert,

Qoppa (PDF Studio) told me they decided not to support it
as even Adobe wants to drop Dynamic XFA.   I have asked the
state to change from Dynamic XFA to something else
and they have responded positively, but ...

Thank you for testing it!

-T

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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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