I R A Darth Aggie  wrote:
> 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.
>
There seem to be problems with evince similar to some of the other
programs I've tried: xpdf, preview (on a mac): The page opens, but
the filled fields display nothing until focused on. When focus moves
the entry becomes invisible. Checkboxes don't see to react at all.
Some fields don't accept focus.

Somewhat to my surprise, after opening evince, I tried clicking on
document viewer in the applications menu. Immediately the still-open
evince window came to the foreground. Is "document viewer" really
evince?


Thanks for reading,

bob prohaska

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