Re: dumb question about Adobe Acrobat....
On 7/29/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:32:18PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote:
> >
> > > The next version of Evince, due this fall, will also support form filling.
> >
> > That is such good news.. exactly what I have been hoping to read.. I've
> > been looking for a way to fill in pdf forms for an amd64 box I have
> > here.
> >
>
> I have been under the impression that evince and kpdf use xpdf behind
> the scenes. Does this mean that xpdf will be able to do this too, or
> are evince (and perhaps kpdf) more functional than xpdf?
Evince uses poppler, which was forked from xpdf quite some time ago.
Kpdf upstream uses xpdf, but some distros hacked it to use poppler
(I'm not sure if Debian did or not). I believe xpdf development is mostly
dead.
Okular, the KDE 4 universal viewer, will use poppler for pdfs.
Cheers,
Kelly
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