[vox-tech] Pdf Viewers

[Charles McLaughlin]

On 03/10/2006 09:02 AM, Bob Scofield wrote:
> I just made a disappointing discovery.  I was playing around with a DMV form 
> and learned that with the Adobe Reader (in SuSE) I could type into the form.   
> But in Debian neither XPDF nor KPDF would let me type.  

You can download a binary from Abobe's website if you really want that 
functionality.

> 
> So it seems that the open source readers are limited in ways that Adobe is 
> not.  I've read the KPDF Handbook, and there is no mentioned of typing into a 
> form.
> 
> So have I discovered a fact of life, or does someone know how to configure an 
> open source reader to type into a pdf document?

I use a program called flpsed when I need to type over a PDF.