[poppler] PDF form

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dijous, 4 de juliol de 2019, a les 15:34:54 CEST, Alex Korobkin va escriure:
> 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

That file uses XFA, XFA is not part of the PDF standard. 

Contact your government and tell them they should fix their PDF files to be standards compliant.

Cheers,
  Albert

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> On Thu, Jul 4, 2019 at 7:03 AM Tobias Deiminger <haxtibal at posteo.de> wrote:
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> > Hi Valerio,
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> > 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.
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> > > Does poppler support them, and someone can suggest and application
> > > poppler based that can fill forms?
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> > yes, poppler and Okular do support filling PDF forms.
> > I'm not sure about Evince, that should be answered by
> > our Gnome people here.
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> > 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.
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> > 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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