Re: [evince] Evince cannot render form PDFs

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 12:02 -0700, Henry Reid wrote:
> To Whom It May Concern:
> Your software cannot render PDFs with fillable forms at all.  

FYI, neither does the PDF.js viewer built into Firefox.

> I have an example, try loading any of the PDFs on the following page.
> http://blog.homoeoteleuton.com/?page_id=983

Confirm, these aren't usable forms for me as well.
evince-3.8.3-1.4.x86_64

Does poppler support forms??

> Most of the pages do not render at all, and a few render but the forms
> are not in the right places, or it renders the forms only and none of
> the page.  I despise Adobe for making their format proprietary and
> secret.

I see the pages rendered, but the form elements are misplaced or
non-functional.

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Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA