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
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