[GTALUG] Adobe Reader Alternatives for Linux

[Brian Carlile]

Anybody else tried "Master PDF Editor" (http://code-industry.net)? I ran 
in to the same government document issue with another pdfnand wondered 
if an editor rather than a reader might be the solution. This one seems 
to work on the pdf under discussion, allowing filling and saving ... at 
least for me with Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon

Cheers

Brian

On 2017-10-11 03:05 PM, Stewart C. Russell via talk wrote:
> On 2017-10-11 12:49 PM, Russell wrote:
>> Don't laugh, I use GIMP. Not perfect by any means …
> Hey, if it works for your application, use it! I tend to find Inkscape
> better on most non-weird PDFs.
>
> But Dhaval's example -
> http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/kits/citizen/CIT0002E-2.pdf - was
> definitely weird. Unless you use Adobe Reader or the other proprietary
> thing I found, it renders as:
>
>    Please wait...
>
>    If this message is not eventually replaced by the
>    proper contents of the document, your PDF
>    viewer may not be able to display this type of
>    document.
>
>    You can upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Reader
>    for Windows®, Mac, or Linux® by
>    visiting  http://www.adobe.com/go/reader_download.
>
>    For more assistance with Adobe Reader visit
>    http://www.adobe.com/go/acrreader.
>
>    Windows is either a registered trademark or a trademark
>    of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or
>    other countries. Mac is a trademark
>    of Apple Inc., registered in the United States and
>    other countries. Linux is the registered trademark of
>    Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other
>    countries.
>
> So Gimp, Evince, Okular, mupdf, Inkscape, gv and all the others would
> only render the single page warning, and not the 8 expected page form.
>
> cheers,
>   Stewart
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