[poppler] PDF form

[Alex Korobkin]

There are special forms that Okular and Evince can't open, like this one
https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/ircc/migration/ircc/english/pdf/kits/forms/imm5257e.pdf



On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 7:03 AM Tobias Deiminger <haxtibal at posteo.de> wrote:

> Hi Valerio,
>
> Am 04.07.2019 12:05 schrieb Valerio Messina:
> > I cannot find a Linux application to fill PDF forms.
> > On Linux, last Acrobat is 9 and it can't too.
> > Seems Evince and Okular cannot too.
> >
> > Does poppler support them, and someone can suggest and application
> > poppler based that can fill forms?
>
> yes, poppler and Okular do support filling PDF forms.
> I'm not sure about Evince, that should be answered by
> our Gnome people here.
>
> What you describe smells like either a broken document
> (because you say even Acrobat can't fill the forms),
> or maybe it's no real form but just non-interactive
> graphic in which case you would use typewriter
> annotations to fill them.
>
> Feel free to open a poppler bug where you attach the PDF file,
> so that we can have a look at it.
>
> Tobias
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-Alex
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