Am 01/08/15 um 12:34 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
On 2015-08-01 11:39, David C. Rankin wrote:
You are 100% correct in your assessment that "this is garbage"! Not only garbage, but I'm fairly certain it violates several mandates against single source technology that results in an anticompetitive impact through implementation.
Huh. PDF, and PDF with forms, is a standard. XFA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFA
And in fact, the help text of your document says that it is supported in Windows, Mac, or Linux. Which was true, but is no longer true in Linux, because Adobe abandoned. Maybe the courts could order it to come back? :-P
As far as I know, if PDF+XFA is not truly supported in Linux, it is the fault of Linux.
What are the developers of evince doing currently? https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince/Roadmap does not show anything like XFA. Maybe they can implement a solution? Via Crowdfunding? The problem exists for a long time now. ( https://www.linux.com/news/software/applications/792447-3-alternatives-to-th... ) Also interesting: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18935 and "In 2011 the ISO Committee urged Adobe Systems to submit the XFA Specification, XML Forms Architecture (XFA), to ISO for standardization and requested Adobe Systems to stabilize the XFA specification. The Committee expressed its concerns about the stability of the XFA specification.[25]" [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFA ] I tried http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit/ but this is just old stuff which needs QT3.
and of acrobat reader. Much less that there may be other's on tablets
Well, there is Acrobat on Android tablets. However, your form doesn't open there.
:-( Which means that Adobe Acrobat itself is inconsistent.
So what does the clueless intern do? He tells the justices that he can create a "real slick" acrobat form that ALL users of the reader can fill-out and print to submit allowing the court to capture the text entries electronically (it's original goal). The clueless intern had no knowledge of simple web forms, ajax or json or any inkling about how simple a true cross platform solution could actually be.
In several countries there is a mandate to use such forms in the administration, so get used to them. I can't find the link now, but there was an effort recently where they paid an organization (in Blegium, perhaps?) to create support for them in LibreOffice. I'll post it later if I find it.
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