[GTALUG] Firefox 93 now supports PDF XFA forms

[Stewart C. Russell]

via <https://mastodon.social/web/statuses/107067764603687669> mastodon:
Implementing form filling and accessibility in the Firefox PDF viewer -
Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog —
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/10/implementing-form-filling-and-accessibility-in-the-firefox-pdf-viewer/
<https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/10/implementing-form-filling-and-accessibility-in-the-firefox-pdf-viewer/>

This appears to mean that Firefox on Linux can open and fill those pesky
Canadian Government forms that were created with Adobe Livecycle. These
used to appear 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*/." but now open as proper forms.

This must have been non-trivial to implement, because even Adobe
couldn't create XFA forms outside the Windows-only Livecycle.

cheers,

 Stewart


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