Re: [lp-ca-on] Ontario government forms

[Blaise Alleyne]

On 18/05/16 08:23 AM, Daniel Villarreal wrote:
> I have a question about forms at the Government of Ontario Central
> Forms Repository
> http://www.forms.ssb.gov.on.ca/
> 
> I found this...
> ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/reader/unix/9.x/9.5.5/enu/
> File:AdbeRdr9.5.5-1_i486linux_enu.rpm
>         58710 KB        05/10/2013      12:00:00 AM
> 
> Using this, it's possible to nominally see a form, but I get messages...
> 
> Cannot Save Form Information
> Please Note: You cannot save a completed copy of this form on your
> computer. If you would like a copy for your records, please fill it in
> and print it.
> --
> Warning: Javascript Windows
> Please choose your status first
> 
> I don't expect to be able to do other than what the "Cannot Save Form
> Information" message indicates (using Adobe Acrobat for GNU/Linux),
> but is there a better, more free/libre way to do this? Is there a way
> for someone to do this using the stock Fedora repositories? Is there a
> way for someone to do this using non-Fedora repositories?
> 
> Evince viewer indicates "The document you are trying to load requires
> Adobe Reader 8 or higher..."
> and
> ** (evince:27803): WARNING **: Unimplemented action:
> POPPLER_ACTION_JAVASCRIPT, please post a bug report in Evince bugzilla
> (http://bugzilla.gnome.org) with a testcase.
> 
> LibreOffice (Version: 5.0.6.2, Supplied by Fedora Project), gv viewer
> and PDFEdit give similar error.
> [...]

I haven't looked at the form, and I'm no expert here, but have you tried Okular
(KDE)?

Evince, Okular, PDFEdit, LibreOffice Draw are the tools I'd normally try...