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 > > > > 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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