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by nroets 2403 days ago
Yes, personally I dual boot Ubuntu and Windows. But the problem is that many organizations I deal with are reinforcing Microsoft dominance by e.g. emailing me PDFs that only Acroread can open. If I want to fight these issues, I may need to resort to name dropping (Google, Apple) and other tactics.
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JoshTriplett 2403 days ago
> emailing me PDFs that only Acroread can open

Please post any examples of those to the evince project as a bug report.

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ThePowerOfFuet 2403 days ago
They're literally everywhere. I pulled this one off the top of my head:

https://www.aoc.cat/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/sol_cert_pers...

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bmn__ 2402 days ago
Okular 1.8.2 says the document contains XFA forms and it's not yet supported. This is the first time I ever even heard of this. <https://enwp.org/XFA> says the technology is already deprecated.

I have used Okular many times for PDFs with embedded forms (no apparent special name). I think you should notify the originator of the unusable PDFs that they should redo the file with regular embedded forms so that they work in most PDF readers.

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yrro 2403 days ago
In my experience these are PDFs that embed JavaScript. I don't think there is much of an appetite for building yet another JS interpreter into the desktop...
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