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I am filing tax report for Maryland state using Form 502.
If I use evince 2.32.0 using poppler/cairo (0.14.3), it will recognize the forms and no way I can fill in anything.
If I use Adobe Reader 9, I can fill in the forms, but the software says there is no way to save the inputs unless print out.
So I was wondering what ways can I use to fill in the forms in the pdf file and still am able to save the input and the forms without printing.
Thanks and regards!
P.S. My OS is Ubuntu 10.10.
Here is a screenshot of an editable PDF file being filled in my desktop for you to see Evince Document Viewer in action.
Like this, there should be some other good PDF readers that will allow you to perform this task, but this is working for me and it is really lightweight.
Good luck!
There is a bug report for Envince. Have a look for further information and status update, the bug is still open.
There is a possible workaround that seems to work for some users, you might try and let us know.
Run these steps on a terminal:
Install the tool
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install qpdf
Run this command, input.pdf is the source file and the output.pdf
is the saved file after running the tool.
qpdf --decrypt input.pdf output.pdf
Try opening the output.pdffile and doing your changes there.
Best Answer
If you do not mind running wine you can try the free PDF-Xchange viewer from here; http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer
This works great under wine, and you can use it to update metadata and annotate pdf documents as well. I downloaded the form and fill in some fields and was able to save it with this application.