Re: [SLUG] Filling in PDF forms

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Thu Feb 05 2009 - 21:19:44 EST


On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Pete Theisen wrote:

> Richard Smoot wrote:
>> Mepis was rather Ubuntu derived for a while but have gone back to being
>> directly Debian derived recently.
>> In the past I have done fill in PDF's with SUSE Pro 9.3 and probably
>> Acrobat.
>> That combo would not work for the new fillable fileable form.
>> I directly e-filed my income tax thru freefilefillableforms.com using Open
>> SUSE 11.1. My old 9.3 couldn't even open up the site properly. I do not
>> have Acrobat installed in 11.1. I think the new fillable fillable forms are
>> using a lot Flash since Adobe bought Macromedia. Ocular is the nicest PDF
>> viewer I have seen yet. The new Open Office also opens PDF's and I think it
>> will let you modify or edit them too.
>
> I tried opening it a couple of times with different character sets and it is
> gibberish. Anyone know what character set PDF is?

No idea, but it's possible it's either compressed (like LZW) or encoded in
binary.

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