[CentOS] {SOLVED} Re: PDF Reader/Editor for CentOS 5.7 (32 bit)?

[ken]

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.