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and subject line re: xpdf: fillable forms support
has caused the Debian Bug report #166928,
regarding xpdf-reader: no support for typeable forms
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Package: xpdf-reader
Version: 2.00-1
Severity: wishlist
xpdf does not support typeable PDF forms. Such forms allow one to fill
in forms with the required information before printing, producing a
nicely printed result. It can indeed display the PDFs just fine, but the
forms are not editable. An example typeable form is the simpler of two
forms available on the NY state department of corporations web site for
forming a non-profit corporation:
http://www.dos.state.ny.us/corp/pdfs/dos1510.pdf
Acrobat Reader can edit the form just fine. It would be nice if there
were a free program that can do the same.
- Jimmy Kaplowitz
[email protected]
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel: Linux fugue.kaplowitz.org 2.4.20-pre5-ben0 #1 Sat Sep 14 21:56:35 EDT
2002 ppc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages xpdf-reader depends on:
ii gsfonts 6.0-2 Fonts for the ghostscript interpre
ii lesstif1 1:0.93.36-3 OSF/Motif implementation released
ii libc6 2.3.1-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfreetype6 2.1.2-10 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libpaperg 1.1.8 Library for handling paper charact
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-12 The GNU stdc++ library
ii t1lib1 1.3.1-1 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii xlibs 4.2.1-3 X Window System client libraries
ii xpdf-common 2.00-1 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
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xpdf just wasn't built with this use case in mind, and there are other
more modern tools that support this now.
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