On Wed, 2021-03-17 at 09:08 -0400, John Scott wrote: > On Wed, 2021-03-17 at 07:57 -0400, Greg Knittl wrote: > > Evince won't handle it. Any suggestions for how to process on > > Linux? > Evince does have some support for filling in fillable forms, but > lacks > some advanced features. In general Okular, the KDE document viewer, > is > more capable of advanced PDF features such as PDF annotations and > even > digital signatures. I suggest giving that a try even if you don't use > KDE. > > If it's not a fillable form, you'll at least be able to insert text > boxes and fill those in. By design, XFA is supposed to give you a screen that talks about how your PDF reader can't render the document. This makes it unusable for anyone that can't render XFA being that it DOESN'T degrade gracefully.
Here's a writeup from Wikipedia: "Most PDF processors do not handle XFA content. When generating a shell PDF it is recommended to include in the PDF markup a simple one-page PDF image displaying a warning message (e.g. "To view the full contents of this document, you need a later version of the PDF viewer.", "The full content of this file cannot be displayed with your current PDF viewer.", "Please wait... If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper contents of the document, your PDF viewer may not be able to display this type of document.", etc.). PDF processors that can render XFA content should either not display the supplied warning page image or replace it quickly with the dynamic form content." > _______________________________________________ > libreplanet-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss -- "Under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family." --Bruce Lee
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