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.
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.
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. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)