On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 09:02:43AM -0800, Bob Scofield wrote: > I just made a disappointing discovery. I was playing around with a DMV form > and learned that with the Adobe Reader (in SuSE) I could type into the form. > > But in Debian neither XPDF nor KPDF would let me type. > > So it seems that the open source readers are limited in ways that Adobe is > not. I've read the KPDF Handbook, and there is no mentioned of typing into a > form.
Well, it's limited in a few other ways as well: The PDF format allows you to embed movies, sounds, javascript, etc. I don't know for sure, but I doubt xpdf supports any of those (and, IIRC, kpdf is a fork from xpdf). > So have I discovered a fact of life, or does someone know how to configure an > open source reader to type into a pdf document? Probably a fact of life. I'm sure that AcroForms is an eventual goal, but probably won't be coming for a while. You may need to resign yourself to acroread. :-( -- Micah J. Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
