On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 14:16:28 +0100 Simon Becherer wrote:
Am 05.02.24 um 13:31 schrieb phanisvara das:
On Monday 05 February 2024 01:25:33 PM (+01:00), jdd@dodin.org wrote:
Le 05/02/2024 à 13:04, Bob Williams a écrit :
My government tax department (UK HMRC) has sent me a PDF form to complete. It is designed to be completed on screen, and then printed, but okular does not offer editing controls to complete the form. I have used okular to complete other pdf forms on this computer so I think the problem is with the form. My system is Tumbleweed + KDE. Can anyone recommend an alternative PDF viewer to try? TIA Bob can be done with Libre Office, but not very friendly
jdd
okular has a switch, button in the right area of the menu bar if i remember correctly, that enables form fields in forms that contain them. happened to me once that i couldn't find it, edited the PDF in GIMP, but
later found that button. can't find a form with fields to show you a screenshot right now.
Here is a pdf.formular with okular
https://paste.opensuse.org/a5ba85bf13b1
on top right corner in the blue field "formulare anzeigen"
Yes, I'm familiar with that blue field and the button. It appears automatically when Okular detects that the form contains fields. So I'm sure the problem is with the form not complying with standards. Or conversely, Okular being non-compliant.
it works for this pdf. maybe other not.
if its private use, you could google an use "Master PDF Editor" (not free for comercial use as i remember)
I'll try that one. Thank you. Bob -- Bob Williams No HTML please. Plain text preferred. https://useplaintext.email/ http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html