<p dir="ltr">You might be able to use PlayOnLinux to get a Windows app running under Linux to take care of that. I can see that adobe acrobat has a silver rating on <a href="http://appdb.winehq.org">appdb.winehq.org</a>, so you could create a virtual drive for wine through PlayOnLinux using wine 1.7.27, install atmlib through the Install Components tab, and then install acrobat in there. It's worth a shot. I personally have not tried to run that particular app through it, but it should work. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 4 Aug 2015 10:40 am, "Chris Jenks" <<a href="mailto:chris@jenks.us">chris@jenks.us</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Dear Carl,<br>
<br>
I recently searched for a (free) PDF editor for linux to deal with the situations you describe but couldn't find anything adequate. As I remember there was at least one commercial linux application that looked like it might work but I wasn't willing to buy it (I see a few listed for sale at this time).<br>
<br>
What I ended up doing was opening the documents in Acrobat on Windows and printing them to PDF. The read-only PDF files can then be read and printed from Linux. Of course this isn't a Linux-only solution, and what I don't like about it is that I can't edit my own PDF documents without going to Windows.<br>
<br>
Yours,<br>
<br>
Chris<br>
<br>
On Tue, 4 Aug 2015, Carl Boettiger wrote:<br>
<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi folks,<br>
<br>
I occasionally have to deal with Adobe pdf documents that have embedded forms at work and am looking for some suggestions on<br>
how to manage this on a Linux platform.<br>
<br>
Sometimes the files are just plain pdfs, and I can happily mark up on top of them with an editor like Xournal and export my<br>
marked-up pdf. <br>
<br>
When the document has embedded forms that already have some content entered into them (e.g. by another user on a Windows/mac<br>
platform), that content does not display in evince. I can get it to display using okular, but cannot print it from okular to<br>
a pdf output without losing the contents of the form.<br>
<br>
It appears that Adobe no longer provides support for a linux version of acroread. I can get older versions of acroread<br>
binaries to install and run just fine, but any attembpt I've made to print the output (e.g. print to file, or using CUPS pdf<br>
printer device) results in either a blank pdf or ps, or worse a document that causes any editor to segfault it when I try and<br>
open it. <br>
<br>
My current strategy has been to take a screenshot of the pdf; crop convert the png back to pdf (say, in gimp), and mark it up<br>
in xournal. Needless to say, this isn't ideal. <br>
<br>
Any suggestions on how to better handle this situation? <br>
<br>
<br>
Somewhat worse than the 'ordinary' pdf forms are pdfs that have XFA-based forms. Opening these under evince or okular just<br>
shows the text: "Please wait...<br>
If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper contents of the document, your PDF viewer may not be able to display<br>
this type of document." While these do open properly and can be edited in the dated linux binaries of acroread, I haven't<br>
found any open source editor that can handle them. (It seems there are good reasons for that, as their may be security issues<br>
etc with this format, but I don't get to choose that). Any way to deal with these? (Even an online tool would be a<br>
reasonable alternative I guess). <br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
<br>
Carl<br>
--<br>
<br>
<a href="http://carlboettiger.info" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://carlboettiger.info</a><br>
<br>
<br>
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