On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 19:40:24 +0200 Roland Smith articulated: > On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 03:18:19PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > > I am looking for an application that can convert a standard "flat" > > PDF file into an "interactive" PDF. I can locate several that work > > under MS Windows, including Acrobat XI; however, I was trying to > > find one that will work under KDE on FreeBSD. > > A lot of those kinds of features are only supported by acrobat reader. > E.g. with KDE's Okular, annotations, forms and playing movies are > listed as in development (see http://okular.kde.org/formats.php). > > Furthermore, it seems that the PDF viewer often needs javascript > built-in and enabled for them to work. Few open source PDF readers > support that, because it can be a huge security risk. The > graphics/mupdf port supports it, but the port is built _without_ > javascript by default. > > Using e.g. print/pdftk you can uncompress the streams in a PDF file, > so you can edit it in any editor. This would allow you to see which > stream contains javascript. Using that and the relevant adobe > documentation, you should be able to add javascript to your own pdf > files.
I am think about giving "print/scribus-devel" a try out. "Acrobat XI" is a pretty nice application, but if I could find something that worked in a similar fashion for a non Windows system, it would be nice. The work I am doing is for a municipality, so cost is not an issue, job security is. If I can do the same job on a non Windows machine, the odds of someone else being able to do the same thing are greatly reduced. If I use Acrobat XI, anyone would be able to do the job making my presents less of an issue. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________
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