Comment by woodrowbarlow

Comment by woodrowbarlow 9 days ago

i recently discovered that the Canadian government depends on this for some fillable forms, because it shows a message at the top that says "JavaScript is disabled" and all the boxes show errors. i couldn't get it to work on Linux and had to dust off a Windows machine (and it still didn't work in firefox, it needed acrobat reader).

AlexanderTheGr8 9 days ago

I have faced this exact problem with Canadian govt forms. Evince doesn't support them. They are so specific about only adobe acrobat to fill out the forms. I can open them in firefox but can't update them properly The only option is to use my barely hanging on 10-yr old windows machine.

Let's hope that eventually they move on to a simpler web form.

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pavon 8 days ago

Okular supports javascript in PDFs and works with many fillable forms.

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ikari_pl 9 days ago

Wait, did Acrobat actually end support for Linux? Od you just didn't want that particular machine to catch... capitalism?

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- necovek 8 days ago
  
  There is no recent version of Acrobat Reader for Linux, and old (was it 5.x beta?) versions rarely work on modern distros.
  
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  ars 8 days ago
  
  Acrobat 9.5 works fine on Linux, if a little slow.
  This Tetris game makes it crash though.
  
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