Leonard Rosenthol on Sun, 4 Aug 2002 09:57:21 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Acrobat for Linux?


At 9:12 PM -0400 8/2/02, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
There was an intermediate windows product called Acrobat business tools
that allowed some annotation and the saving of FDF data.

Correct. It is now called Acrobat Approval - $39 online.


Then the IRS convinced Adobe to allow them to distribute free version
called Acrobat Fill-In that allowed FDF saves.

Fill-In was Business Tools renamed ;).


Those were both with version 4.  Acrobat fill-in was just the reader
with a few of the form plug-ins.

Actually, it was the full Acrobat with some stuff removed. Reader uses special plugins.



With version 5, they dropped Acrobat
business tools and replaced it with a product which I understand is
somewhere between Acrobat Fill-In and Acrobat Business Tools.

Approval - see above ;).


It doesn't seem this intermediate product is available for Unix.

Correct.


Is anyone working on adding any of this extra functionality into the GPLed
readers/writers like ghostscript or xpdf?

There isn't any way to do this to GS, since it doesn't work with PDF natively (it's does some funky PDF->PS conversions). It would be possible to do this with Xpdf (just as it now has HyperLink support included), but no one is working on it that I am aware of given the complexity and lack of interest.



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