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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I purchased the business edition of PDF
Studio:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.qoppa.com/">http://www.qoppa.com/</a><br>
<br>
There's a version for Linux and one for Windows and Mac.<br>
<br>
It's my default pdf program and I like it, but I have to admit
that Windows Foxit is better. I've seen Foxit OCR material that
PDF Studio cannot.<br>
<br>
The reason that I purchased a commercial program is that I plan to
take Windows off my computers when Windows 9 expires in 2019, and
I'm experimenting with using Linux in my business. PDF Studio is
one step in that direction.<br>
<br>
Bob<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 08/04/2015 10:56 AM, Chris Jenks wrote:<br>
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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 type="cite">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
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://carlboettiger.info">http://carlboettiger.info</a>
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