Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
Chris Howie wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
With the free Adobe Reader 7.0.1 and IRS' pdf forms with documentation
rights one can finally fill out the forms on Linux and save them.
Goodbye pstoedit, you were good when needed.
Adobe Reader is not free software, pstoedit is. Chances are a lot of
debian
users won't be switching to superfluous non-free software like Adobe
Reader
when a free alternative exists.
My two cents.
Except that pstoedit cannot seriously be considered an alternative to
acroread. Personally, I am all bout the "Free Software, Rah! Rah! Rah!"
However, I also accept that some non-free components will always exist
and some may even be required. When filling out PDF forms, there is no
free alternative that is *comparable* to acroread. When you have to do
enough of them, it's easier to just whip the form open in acroread and
fill it in. Additionally, if the full version of Adobe were available
for Linux, there is a chance I'd buy it, since I do fill in enough forms
that are not enabled to save in the free reader, that it would be worth
the convenience for me.
That's the way it is.
Last year I wrote an application to actually update the .ps conversions
of the IRS pdf's. Interesting exercise but it cannot compare with just
filling out the forms and saving them.
I don't actually know how you get the "document rights" in a pdf. The
IRS forms have them. But trying a graduate school application for my
son, that did not have them, and Adobe Reader 7.0.1 warns that you
cannot save the document, only print it.
H
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