On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 10:16:09AM +0200, Till Kamppeter wrote: > On 05/18/2013 07:17 AM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 01:25:12PM +0200, Till Kamppeter wrote: > >> So Ghostscript is out of the question here as it is large and the PDF > >> interpreter is written in PostScript. Poppler has the advantage of > >> having a long history and so it should deal best with quirky files. > >> MuPDF is written with lightweightness in mind, is the only free software > >> which allows filling and saving PDF forms, > > This doesn't sound accurate to me - I've used evince before (which is > > poppler based) to fill out PDF forms and save them. Maybe this should be > > checked? > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/1153517 Thanks for the reference. However, this doesn't say "poppler does not allow filling and saving PDF forms", it says "there is a bug in saving forms with encrypted PDFs which is fixed in a later version of poppler." It seems like we should just get the poppler transition done (after confirming that it fixes the problem), and be done with it? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected]
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