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echo: rberrypi
to: VA.00000D61.0F86633D@ME.I
from: I R A DARTH AGGIE
date: 2020-03-10 18:24:00
subject: Re: Fillable/printable .p

On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 16:52:01 -0000,
Daniel James , in
 wrote:
>  In article , Bob prohaska wrote:
> > Is there a program that can fill, save and print PDF forms?
> >
> > In poking around Buster the default .pdf viewer seems to be gpdfview
> > and it doesn't seem to work well with fillable forms (won't display
> > correctly and can't make changes).
>
>  I'm using Buster Mate (Debian on the PC, not Raspbian at the moment)
>  and the default PDF viewer is Atril (the Mate fork of Gnome Evince).
>  With that I can edit PDF forms and save and print them. I believe
>  Raspbian Buster has evince ...
>
>  The only slight oddity is that when I open a form and fill it in I
>  can't "Save" it (over the original file), I can only "Save as" it (to a
>  new file). I suppose this is a safeguard to prevent people from
>  overwriting their blank PDF form the first time they try filling it in!

I was going to suggest evince. Caveat: I sent someone an evince-filled
form, and their Acrobat wouldn't open it for them. So...I did a
print-to-PDF and sent that, and they could open it. They didn't really
need a form PDF at that point. But I don't know if that is still a
problem, or if it was some stupidity I committed on my end.

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