On 2013-12-05 22:22, John Andersen wrote:
On 12/5/2013 12:48 PM, C wrote:
there's a Chromium PDF plugin - it's in the community repos. I've just installed it, and it "seems" to work OK with the form linked way back at the start of this long thread. Maybe this is a solution?
The form mentioned way back at the start works with the current Okular. (Ignore the error, and click show the form).
It is not as simple as that. Those forms include code. This is usually used only to create a button to print the form. In that case, the code is irrelevant. I have seen a form that displays a calendar gadget to select the date, also done with javascript. Without it, you simply type the date. But that code can be used to fill fields based on formulae, or for verification of consistency between fields. It is up to the creator to decide what he does with that code. I have seen forms that weight 10 times more the size of the form itself, just for the included code. The administration here uses some forms that when you print them, they print some extra pages filled with dot-codes - like bar codes, but with much more data. The official simply scans those dots with a handheld laser scanner, and the data is quickly entered on to the administration network. No OCR involved, no typing errors. I'm almost sure those forms only work in acrobat. Unfortunately, I do not have a sample. When you open such a form in okular or evince, you simply do not know if it _really_ works unless you compare it with acroread. You need the comparison on each form to verify that you are not missing a critical feature of the form. Two more samples:
http://smarte-forms.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/birth-certificate-appl...
http://www.seg-social.es/Internet_6/Pensionistas/Servicios/Solicitudesdepres...
The first one has the calendar I mentioned. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar)