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Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms

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Re: Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms

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Post by jhoechtl »

boogies wrote: post #95
blackbrokkoli wrote: post #78

I have a feeling this thread has a strong bias from highly automated valley life. In more provincial regions and even just much of Europe lots of forms have to be filled out and printed. It is not something you have to everyday or something, but the existing solutions suck massively. You either have to use Adobe, which requires Windows (or Mac, I suppose) and your firstborn or use some massively shady online service.…

Isn’t evince capable of this and the default PDF viewer on GNOME?

Gnome - no. Okular the KDE counterpart works very fine.

Re: Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms

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Post by jhoechtl »

franga2000 wrote: post #94
bawolff wrote: post #60

Finally. Its a nightmere trying to fill out a pdf form on linux.

Okular can handle basically everything for me, except for those Adobe-proprietary ones that require JS and all kinds of other dumb features that only Acrobat supports.

I recently made the switch to gnome as the multi-monitor support, fractional scaling and general Wayland support is only excelled by sway. I sorely miss Okular!

Re: Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms

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Post by doc_gunthrop »

Any chance Firefox will have built-in support for printing to PDF? There's a browser extension[1], but it was last updated 3 years ago. Seems the Chrome browser has had this feature for ages.

1: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/print-to-pdf-...

Re: Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms

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Post by maest »

burtonator wrote: post #44

I'm the author of Polar ( https://getpolarized.io/ ) that uses PDF.js as its PDF backend. This is a somewhat big update for PDF.js which is kind of cool in that they haven't really been updating it as aggressively as they usually do in the last year or so. It's a bit frustrating to work with though. The entire concept of rendering a PDF via JS is fascinating but actually using the API has been a huge pain for us. We'…

Do you have, by any chance, any good resources on PDF.js? The README on the github is ok, but it doesn't really cover what workers are supposed to do and provide any useful mental model for the architecture of the whole thing.

Re: Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms

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Post by cgb223 »

rvense wrote: post #45
kebman wrote: post #15

I looked into coding PDFs once. Then I closed my MacBook (Pro) and went for a long walk into the ocean. I think I almost got to America, but then I turned and swam back again. Turnd out I had just fallen asleep and had a nightmare. I was actually just working with regular text files, and everything was fine.

My favourite PDF fact is that it doesn't have to start at the beginning or end at the end of a file. Any sea of bytes that contains a PDF file is an acceptable PDF file...

My favorite pdf fact is that the security flags for things like copy protection and passwords are on the viewer to implement so you can just turn them off and all the security is gone

Re: Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms

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Post by jwatt »

doc_gunthrop wrote: post #143

Any chance Firefox will have built-in support for printing to PDF? There's a browser extension[1], but it was last updated 3 years ago. Seems the Chrome browser has had this feature for ages. 1: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/print-to-pdf-...

It's not ready for release yet, but if you flip the preference `print.tab_modal.enabled` to true you'll get the replacement printing interface which has a "Save as PDF" pseudo-printer.

Re: Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms

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Post by mgbmtl »

jhoechtl wrote: post #142
franga2000 wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okular can handle basically everything for me, except for those Adobe-proprietary ones that require JS and all kinds of other dumb features that only Acrobat supports.

I recently made the switch to gnome as the multi-monitor support, fractional scaling and general Wayland support is only excelled by sway. I sorely miss Okular!

Can't you still run KDE apps under Gnome, even with Wayland? I use a few. Some of them look better with the "QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland" environment variable.

Re: Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms

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Post by ReverseCold »

jhoechtl wrote: post #142
franga2000 wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Okular can handle basically everything for me, except for those Adobe-proprietary ones that require JS and all kinds of other dumb features that only Acrobat supports.

I recently made the switch to gnome as the multi-monitor support, fractional scaling and general Wayland support is only excelled by sway. I sorely miss Okular!

Okular should work fine on GNOME, but you might need extra disk space for all the KDE dependencies.

Re: Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms

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Post by betatim »

maddyboo wrote: post #121
rvense wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My favourite PDF fact is that it doesn't have to start at the beginning or end at the end of a file. Any sea of bytes that contains a PDF file is an acceptable PDF file...

Can a PDF file contain a PDF file, and if so can that PDF file contain a PDF file?

Yes. Because the PDF standard specifies a mechanism that lets you "attach" files to a PDF :)

Re: Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms

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Post by layoutIfNeeded »

maddyboo wrote: post #121
rvense wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My favourite PDF fact is that it doesn't have to start at the beginning or end at the end of a file. Any sea of bytes that contains a PDF file is an acceptable PDF file...

Can a PDF file contain a PDF file, and if so can that PDF file contain a PDF file?

ZIP files can: https://research.swtch.com/zip
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