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Comment by woodrowbarlow

9 days ago

i recently discovered that the Canadian government depends on this for some fillable forms, because it shows a message at the top that says "JavaScript is disabled" and all the boxes show errors. i couldn't get it to work on Linux and had to dust off a Windows machine (and it still didn't work in firefox, it needed acrobat reader).

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AlexanderTheGr8  9 days ago

I have faced this exact problem with Canadian govt forms. Evince doesn't support them. They are so specific about only adobe acrobat to fill out the forms. I can open them in firefox but can't update them properly The only option is to use my barely hanging on 10-yr old windows machine.

Let's hope that eventually they move on to a simpler web form.

  • pavon  8 days ago

    Okular supports javascript in PDFs and works with many fillable forms.

  • ikari_pl  9 days ago

    Wait, did Acrobat actually end support for Linux? Od you just didn't want that particular machine to catch... capitalism?