Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 03/09/2011 11:55 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Camaleón wrote:
> > On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:10:55 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> >
> > > Camaleón wrote:
> >
> > > > > 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.
> >
> > Form 1040 can be filled fine with Evince (from lenny) but as I
> > never do online taxes tasks, I'm not sure if it's okay with just
> > filling the data and then print it or sending the file via e-mail
> > or by direct upload.
> >
> > What error are you getting? You can't write in the fields at all?
>
> No errors, just no ability to write into the form fields.

Works for me in Sid using Acroread 9.4.2-0.0 and IW 4.0b12.

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