Ubuntu – Cannot view PDF files with fillable fields with Okular

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Most PDF files work perfectly well with my default document viewer Okular, but cannot open a PDF file with fillable field with any program other than Adobe Acrobat Reader (acroread).

Is there anyway to make Okular open, edit and save PDF documents with fillable forms?

Best Answer

The answer as of now is No.

This file is encrypted and can only be opened with Acrobat Reader.

richard@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ pdfinfo n-400.pdf 
Title:          Appication for Naturalization
Author:         USCIS
Creator:        Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES 8.2
Producer:       Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES 8.2
CreationDate:   Thu Nov 15 16:21:11 2007
ModDate:        Tue Jun 21 11:36:34 2011
Tagged:         yes
Pages:          1
Encrypted:      yes (print:yes copy:no change:no addNotes:no)
Page size:      612 x 792 pts (letter)
File size:      110428 bytes
Optimized:      no
PDF version:    1.7

The only unencrypted element is the following text, found using pdftotext

richard@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ pdftotext n-400.pdf l.txt && cat l.txt 
To view the full contents of this document, you need a later version of the PDF viewer. You can upgrade
to the latest version of Adobe Reader from www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
For further support, go to www.adobe.com/support/products/acrreader.html

There are lots of people affected by this.

My solution was to install acroread, fill in and print the form (the option to save wasn't available either for the form I was using), and then remove acroread.

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