Re: Adobe Reader 10 - paper form solution

[Greg Knittl]

Links:

a specific form:

http://www.forms.ssb.gov.on.ca/mbs/ssb/forms/ssbforms.nsf/GetFileAttach/9955E~7/$File/9955E_2.pdf

related forms

http://www.forms.ssb.gov.on.ca/mbs/ssb/forms/ssbforms.nsf/FormDetail?OpenForm&ACT=RDR&TAB=PROFILE&SRCH=&ENV=WWE&TIT=9955&NO=9955E

I think Ontario uses XFA quite extensively as I've run into this with 
other Ontario forms as well.

thanks,
Greg

On 2021-03-20 1:05 p.m., Jean Louis wrote:
> * Greg Knittl <gknittl@sympatico.ca> [2021-03-20 16:12]:
> > Hi Leland,
> >
> > GIMP 2.10.22 will not load this XFA pdf either.
> >
> > I use the same approach of converting the PDF to image and writing on the
> > image. In this case the government will send me paper forms which I will
> > scan and then write on the scans...
>
> I have been converting PDFs with ImageMagick:
>
> mogrify -format jpg -density 300 FILE.PDF
>
> It would create FILE-1.jpg FILE-2.jpg and so on for each page. You may
> increase the page quality. Try it out.
>
> Can you please post the PDF hyperlink? I would like to try it out with
> various PDF readers.
>
> More references:
>
> PDFium supports XFA and is free software:
> https://pdfium.googlesource.com/pdfium/
>
> Evince is supposed to handle some XFA forms, maybe it is not compiled
> in on your system. https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince/Forms