Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-13 Thread Octavian Afilipoai
I had the same problem until I installed some of the optional acroread packages (acroread-plugins and mozilla-acroread). That fixed the issue and now I can fill in and save pdf forms --Tavi

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-10 Thread Curt
On 2011-03-09, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Has anyone filled out US taxforms with a pdf viewer? > I filled them out with evince (buggy on one field of the 1040 form when saving; you can save the filled-in file and the form still remains fillable afterwards, which I wasn't able to do with Adobe when

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/10/2011 12:01 AM, S D wrote: --- On Wed, 3/9/11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: PGP/GPG and TLS are *significantly* more secure than mailing your papers. You seem to forget that in the process you entrust your data to a *for-profit* corporation that will store and use it in the way tha

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread S D
--- On Wed, 3/9/11, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > PGP/GPG and TLS are *significantly* more secure than > mailing your papers. You seem to forget that in the process you entrust your data to a *for-profit* corporation that will store and use it in the way that profits them, though you may fin

Re: Re (2): [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <87aah3hpf0@thumper.dhh.gt.org>, John Hasler wrote: >I wrote: >> No electronic transmission method can be as secure as walking into >> my CPA's office and handing him papers. In <201103091258.46708@iguanasuicide.net>, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >Similarly, if you engage a tax profess

Re: Re (2): [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread John Hasler
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. writes: > ...are the most secure way to exchange information publicly available. I wrote: > That statement is certainly false on its face. No electronic > transmission method can be as secure as walking into my CPA's office > and handing him papers. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Re: Re (2): [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-03-09 16:11:47 John Hasler wrote: >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. writes: >> ...are the most secure way to exchange information publicly available. > >That statement is certainly false on its face. No electronic >transmission method can be as secure as walking into my CPA's office and >handing him

Re: Re (2): [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > ...the Web is inherently insecure. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. writes: > Well, that statement is false on it's face. History disagrees with you. > Properly implemented TLS trust chains... Some probably exist, somewhere. They do not include Verisign. > ...are the most secure way to exch

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Eric Morey
On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 13:10 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> > >> Has anyone filled out US taxforms with a pdf viewer? > >> > > > > I'm able to fill form fields and save values with v 9.4. > > > > > > Yes, but is this the Debian acroread v.9.4 or Adobe's v.9.4? > Adobe's -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Re (2): [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-03-09 13:44:32 John Hasler wrote: >I wrote: >> Sure, if you don't mind publishing your tax returns. > >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. writes: >> "Publishing" is perhaps a bit harsh. Most web-based tax services use >> end-to- end encryption to prevent the data from being intercepted both >> times i

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/09/2011 11:55 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:10:55 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: Has anyone filled out US taxforms with a pdf viewer? Do you have any URI that we can test? Yes, get form 1040 from here: http://www.irs.gov/ It's the

Re (3): [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread peasthope
From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:58:41 -0600 > Most web-based tax services use end-to- > end encryption to prevent the data from being intercepted both times it is > "on > the wire": from you to them and from them to the IRS. True in Canada also. Revenue Canada qual

Re: Re (2): [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Sure, if you don't mind publishing your tax returns. Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. writes: > "Publishing" is perhaps a bit harsh. Most web-based tax services use > end-to- end encryption to prevent the data from being intercepted both > times it is "on the wire": from you to them and from the

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Jason Jordan wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:10:55 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom dijo: Has anyone filled out US taxforms with a pdf viewer? Do you have any URI that we can test? Yes, get form 1040 from here: http://www.irs.gov/ I had no trouble using Adobe Reader 9.4.2 on 64-bit Linux. I di

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Eric Morey wrote: On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 09:31 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Last year I was able to fill out US taxforms with acroread 8.1.3. This year I run amd64 and installed acroread (version 9.4.2) from debian-multimedia but I cannot edit a single form although the document properti

Re: Re (2): [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On 2011-03-09 11:10:39 John Hasler wrote: >Peter E. writes: >> Isn't a Web based tax calculation more efficient? > >Sure, if you don't mind publishing your tax returns. "Publishing" is perhaps a bit harsh. Most web-based tax services use end-to- end encryption to prevent the data from being inter

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 12:25 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 10:10 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> Camaleón wrote: > >>> On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:31:48 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>> > Last year I was able to fill out US taxforms with

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John A. Sullivan III wrote: On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 10:10 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:31:48 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Last year I was able to fill out US taxforms with acroread 8.1.3. This year I run amd64 and installed acroread (version 9.4.2) from

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 09 March 2011 06:31:48 am Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Last year I was able to fill out US taxforms with acroread 8.1.3. > > This year I run amd64 and installed acroread (version 9.4.2) from > debian-multimedia but I cannot edit a single form although the document > properties sa

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:10:55 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Camaleón wrote: Has anyone filled out US taxforms with a pdf viewer? Do you have any URI that we can test? Yes, get form 1040 from here: http://www.irs.gov/ It's the first PDF on the top lefthand side. On my syste

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 10:10 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Camaleón wrote: > > On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:31:48 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > > >> Last year I was able to fill out US taxforms with acroread 8.1.3. > >> > >> This year I run amd64 and installed acroread (version 9.4.2) from > >> deb

Re: Re (2): [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread John Hasler
Peter E. writes: > Isn't a Web based tax calculation more efficient? Sure, if you don't mind publishing your tax returns. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http

Re: Re (2): [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 08:49:18 -0800, peasthope wrote: > From: Camaleon > Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:34:41 + (UTC) >> Form 1040 can be filled fine with Evince (from lenny) ... I'm not sure >> if it's okay with just filling the data and then print it or sending >> the file via e-mail or by direct

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:41:23 -0500, Eric Morey wrote: > On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 16:34 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> Form 1040 can be filled fine with Evince (from lenny) > > I was not able to save values in the form fields with evince. Only with > acroread v 9.4. No? Weird, I can :-? (evince 2.22.2

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:10:55 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom dijo: >>> Has anyone filled out US taxforms with a pdf viewer? >> Do you have any URI that we can test? >Yes, get form 1040 from here: http://www.irs.gov/ I had no trouble using Adobe Reader 9.4.2 on 64-bit Linux. I didn't try Okular, Evince,

Re (2): [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread peasthope
From: Camaleon Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:34:41 + (UTC) > Form 1040 can be filled fine with Evince (from lenny) ... > I'm not sure if it's okay with just filling the data > and then print it or sending the file via e-mail or by direct upload. Isn't a Web based tax calculation more efficie

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Eric Morey
On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 09:31 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Last year I was able to fill out US taxforms with acroread 8.1.3. > > This year I run amd64 and installed acroread (version 9.4.2) from > debian-multimedia but I cannot edit a single form although the document > properties say

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Eric Morey
On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 16:34 +, Camaleón wrote: > Form 1040 can be filled fine with Evince (from lenny) I was not able to save values in the form fields with evince. Only with acroread v 9.4. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:10:55 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >>> Has anyone filled out US taxforms with a pdf viewer? >> >> Do you have any URI that we can test? >> >> > Yes, get form 1040 from here: http://www.irs.gov/ It's the first PDF on > the top lefthand side. On my syste

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:31:48 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Last year I was able to fill out US taxforms with acroread 8.1.3. This year I run amd64 and installed acroread (version 9.4.2) from debian-multimedia but I cannot edit a single form although the document properties say

Re: [OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:31:48 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Last year I was able to fill out US taxforms with acroread 8.1.3. > > This year I run amd64 and installed acroread (version 9.4.2) from > debian-multimedia but I cannot edit a single form although the document > properties say "fillable

[OT] US tax forms with acroread from debian-multimedia

2011-03-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Last year I was able to fill out US taxforms with acroread 8.1.3. This year I run amd64 and installed acroread (version 9.4.2) from debian-multimedia but I cannot edit a single form although the document properties say "fillable". Has anyone filled out US taxforms with a pdf viewer? Hug