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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.…
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I think he meant digital signature
In case he meant regular (drawn) signature, it can be done via Preview on Mac. For a local web use, I built for myself https://formulairemagique.fr for this very reason
> After entering data into these fields you can download the file to have the filled out version saved to your computer. And then what? Fax it? Sounds like a missed opportunity to me. It would be nice if you can add a Submit button to have the data posted to the server, just like any other web-based form.
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That would be nice if websites support that. But in my experienced all PDF forms I fill in have to be printed and then signed and posted...
I haven't printed a PDF to sign in years. Why don't you just affix a digital image of your signature to the file? Save it and email it back to whomever.
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.
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-...
Does your operating system not support this natively from the print dialog?
Chrome's save-as PDF produces actual text. It's the main reason I still have chrome installed.
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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.
So for sure you already have access to Evince and Preview.app, they already do everything you want, but Windows users don’t really have that luxury! Being able to say to users to just install Firefox if they want to edit PDF is really good IMHO, way better than the current situation.
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.
I had to handle action buttons for a PDF once. I swam out from America a long long ways before turning back. Might have spotted you middle of the ocean.