Re: [PLUG] Acrobat for Linux?

[Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>]

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.


Leonard
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