Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia
On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 12:25 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 10:10 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> >> Camaleón wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:31:48 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Last year I was able to fill out US taxforms with acroread 8.1.3.
> >>>>
> >>>> This year I run amd64 and installed acroread (version 9.4.2) from
> >>>> debian-multimedia but I cannot edit a single form although the document
> >>>> properties say "fillable".
> >>>>
> >>>> Has anyone filled out US taxforms with a pdf viewer?
> >>> Do you have any URI that we can test?
> >>>
> >> Yes, get form 1040 from here: http://www.irs.gov/
> >> It's the first PDF on the top lefthand side. On my system clicking that
> >> downloads the form and opens acroread with it. You're supposed to be
> >> able to fill in any of the formfields.
> >>
> >>> Acrobat Reader 9.4.2 is the latest version available (still no Acrobat X
> >>> for linux), but filling forms should not be a problem for Acrobat's app
> >>> unless the PDF form has any "specific" requirement on the client side.
> >>>
> >>> If you have Okular or Evince also installed, it is worth a try to test
> >>> with these.
> >>>
> >>> Greetings,
> >>>
> >>
> > If I recall correctly, the ability to fill in forms in not part of the
> > acroread .deb file but rather included in the plugins. Have you
> > installed acroread-plugins? Good luck - John
> >
> >
>
> Hey John, that's it! The .deb does not allow you to fill in forms but
> the plugin does: installed mozilla-acroread. Thanks!
>
> Hugo
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Glad to help. By the way, I found the mozilla-acroread very buggy. It
would display the first time but any subsequent time, I only got a white
screen - John
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