Finally. Its a nightmere trying to fill out a pdf form on linux.
I just use Libreoffice Draw to add text into stubborn pdfs on windows and any on Linux. It's a good, free OSS way to get the job done, though not pretty.
Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms
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Sure, here's my list: everything + more. There's nothing a PDF can do that a webpage can't. In fact there are a hundred of things that a webpage can do, but a PDF can't. Including, form fields, input fields and seamless form submissions. Webpages can also do this: https://bubblin.io/cover/official-handbook-by-marvin-danig#f... Disclosure: It's my work.
Anyone can create a PDF form to capture data and signatures, email it to someone who can then fill it out offline, and then email it back. That's not something easily done with a webpage, and it's not something my mom can do. PDFs are easy to make and easy to work with. Web pages aren't. Your work is impressive, and why would anyone want that? Do you envision lawyers putting all their legal contracts into fancy flipp…
> Do you envision lawyers putting all their legal contracts into fancy flippy books?
Someone will have to solve it for the lawyers in a not so 'fancy consumerish' way. Point is that it is possible to do that, and Firefox shouldn't be solving this problem using an ancient format and a layer of cruft in between.
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Did anyone try to pluck out PDFs from /dev/urandom? How about from radiotelescope feed? Maybe the first evidence of extraterrestrial life will be some poor alien's tax form?
The digits of pi contain every pdf that ever could and ever will exist.
Since a PDF can begin with non-PDF content, then pi itself is a valid PDF file.
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> PDF.js dev here I'm so sorry about being forward but why the hell don't the vim keys (hjkl) smooth scroll? Its so frustrating. Is there an option to set it as so? Using the arrow keys is so cumbersome.
here, I'll make it easier for you to contribute to the project by providing you with the lines you'd need to update: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/blob/83e1bbea6e23db8744420... https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/blob/83e1bbea6e23db8744420...
Brilliant
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#245A note for Linux and macOS users, from someone who switched to windows one year ago: it’s maybe surprising but it is a VERY REAL pain in the Windows world to find a pdf reader that also allows you to edit forms, that doesn’t also come with malware or adware, and has even just a modest UX! So for sure you already have access to Evince and Preview.app, they already do everything you want, but Windows users don’t really…
Just to provide anecdata against the current comments. I totally agree with you. It's not particularly hard if you are pretty tech savvy, but the for the average user you pretty much are stuck with adobe. Or you can try your luck with the edge/chrome pdf form fill but there's a decent chance it just won't bother saving your input. On adbobe, it is still full of extra crap that is irrelevant to everyday use. I think it still bugs people to update it all the time, but I don't use adobe, so I don't know.
Re: Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms
#246A note for Linux and macOS users, from someone who switched to windows one year ago: it’s maybe surprising but it is a VERY REAL pain in the Windows world to find a pdf reader that also allows you to edit forms, that doesn’t also come with malware or adware, and has even just a modest UX! So for sure you already have access to Evince and Preview.app, they already do everything you want, but Windows users don’t really…
I read that as suggesting this is potentially a killer app for Firefox adoption in the enterprise.
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#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's easy to dismiss things in their entirety and then require someone else to "prove you wrong". Why don't you prove you're right instead? Why don't you list all of things that PDFs can do that can also be done with web pages?
Sure, here's my list: everything + more. There's nothing a PDF can do that a webpage can't. In fact there are a hundred of things that a webpage can do, but a PDF can't. Including, form fields, input fields and seamless form submissions. Webpages can also do this: https://bubblin.io/cover/official-handbook-by-marvin-danig#f... Disclosure: It's my work.
Wish I could look at your work but my browser doesn't support javascript. I wonder what it is about.
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#249I 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.
It's kinda crazy that this is the format we've standardized on to carry all of the output of academia into the future.
A lot of the input is LaTeX, so that's ok.
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It's kinda crazy that this is the format we've standardized on to carry all of the output of academia into the future.
A lot of the input is LaTeX, so that's ok.
And arxiv asks for the original latex source when submitting.
Well, at least, pdf is probably better than printed paper for that purpose.