[LBo] Adobe Acrobat Reader on FC6 x86_64

Alan Lake alan.lake at lakeinfoworks.com
Tue Mar 27 20:22:37 CEST 2007


There are some pdf forms that can be filled out on one's computer with 
Adobe Reader.  I don't know of any other software that does that.  Check 
out the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services form I-130 for an 
example.  I, for one, would like to find an open source replacement.

Cheers,
Alan

Bert Van Kets wrote:
> Niki Kovacs wrote:
>> Le mardi 27 mars 2007 à 11:29 +0200, Andrew Henry a écrit :
>>  
>>> Is there any specific reason you need Acrobat?  I use Evince under
>>> Gnome, and for most everyday tasks, like simply reading PDF docs, it
>>> works like a charm and is *much* faster than Acrobat.  Is there any
>>> specific feature you need that isn't included in Evince (or kPDF under
>>> KDE)?     
>>
>> I second that. I administer PC's in town halls and public libraries, and
>> there's much use for PDF here. We also use Evince for everything, and
>> it's just perfect. I've tried Acrobat first, but since there's an OSS
>> app that does the job as good, I've replaced it by Evince.
>>
>> On the other hand, I've seen huge differences between distributions in
>> terms of handling PDF. Evince can be perfect in one distribution, and
>> useless (understand: crashes all the time or painfully slow) in another
>> one.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Niki Kovacs
>>   
> I've come across a few documents that were saved in the latest version 
> of Acrobat and did not display properly in KPDF. At least with Acrobat 
> Reader I can be sure all PDF documents I receive can be viewed properly.


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