Comment by AlexanderTheGr8

Comment by AlexanderTheGr8 9 days ago

7 replies

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.

pavon 8 days ago

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

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?

  • 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.

    • ars 8 days ago

      Acrobat 9.5 works fine on Linux, if a little slow.

      This Tetris game makes it crash though.

      • necovek 8 days ago

        Oh, thanks, that's good to hear!

        Edit: only now I see that's also from 2009 with updates into 2013. Do you where one can easily download the latest patched version?