On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 12:47 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:46 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > > Lanny Marcus wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 8:35 AM, Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com> > >> wrote: > >>> I had, in the past, a .pdf reader that also permitted me to fill in > >>> some information, when I received a .pdf file. > > <snip> > >> Adobe Reader is only a "reader" as I assumed it would be. Some PDF > >> readers can also fill in forms, do editing, etc., however not Adobe > >> Reader. > > <snip> > > I don't know what's wrong, other than the possibility that wherever you > > got the form, they did *not* make it so that you can fill it out on your > > system. Note that *every* instance that I've done that, acroread tells me > > that I *must* print it, and that I *cannot* save it filled out. > > > > That, of course, is solved by the pdfprinter driver for CUPS, though that > > leaves me with a filled out, but un-re-editable document. > > > > And yes, I have a bunch of purchase requests that I filled out in the last > > couple of years that were like this, and yes, I used acroread. > > > > mark > > Mark: I now have Adobe Reader 9 installed on the M$ Windows side and > also on the Linux side of this box. Both show among the plugins, the > Acrobat Forms plugin is Not loaded. Possibly if that plugin can be > loaded, in Adobe Reader, one can fill in forms. ---- Acrobat on Linux (AdobeReader to be more precise) will indeed do forms but you really should disable the browser plug-in (I believe in Firefox lingo, they're called extensions) and you will have less memory issues with FF and PDF files will download and allow you to choose which program you use to open them (AdobeReader or /usr/bin/acroread) and life is generally better. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.