MHR wrote: > I've tried reporting this to Adobe, but they are remarkably deaf to > such an enormous market of free software users. > > At least as of AR 9.3, including the latest 9.3.1, I have been unable > to view or work with the savable fill-in PDFs that I've pulled off the > web in the last couple of months. I have no trouble at all with them > in my Windows virtual machine, but the Linux version starts up, > displays the window/frame outline, then crashes and dies silently. > > Since Adobe doesn't provide any useful channel of communications for > support to users of its free products, even though they are > essentially ubiquitous and somewhat essential (for things like this), > apparently their recent breakthrough in the area of supporting Linux > systems does not include actually supporting Linux systems users. > > So, since I have made that enormous leap of logic, I wonder, is anyone > else experiencing this problem? > > Yes, I know all about evince - use it most of the time, but it does > not handle the fill-in PDFs or the ones where you can save the > filled-in values. > > Any other options? I haven't tried it yet, but this caught my eye recently: http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/pdfimport you need to install a recent openoffice though