Re: [evince] what missing functionality is this document using?

["jose aliste gmail com" <jose aliste gmail com>]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:26 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier <hugh mimosa com> wrote:
> [My first post to this list.  Thanks for Evince: I use it all the time!]
>
Thanks for using evince :)

> I'm trying to fill out this form.
> <http://www.passport.gc.ca/form/pdfs/pptc054.pdf>
>
> On page 5, there are things that look like blue buttons.
> In Adobe Reader 9 on WinXP, they are blue buttons.
> In Evince on up-to-date Fedora 14, they don't function.
>
> The buttons images show up when Evince prints the document.  I don't know
> if that is true for AR9.
>
> 1) what feature of PDF are these buttons using?  (Pure guess: JavaScript.)

Your pure guess is good, this doc has javascript and evince does not
currently support javascript
>
> 2) is Evince (Poppler?) going to support this feature?
>
We are trying to work on adding Javascript support with Ryan Lewis, so
hopefully in the future will be supported, but no promises of if of
when it will supported.

> 3) is there any way for a user to know that some feature of a document is
>   not being rendered by Evince?

The only way is the natural one, open the pdf with Evince and
acroread, I am not aware of any other method.


Greetings

José

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