On 09/23/2011 08:45 PM Craig White wrote: > 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 Agreed. Adobe products, at least those meant to run on Linux, are easily confused. I use them minimally, if at all.