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Savable PDF forms in Evince and Okular  
Written by xfuser4 the 17 Oct 09 at 09:16. New
PDF forms are more and more used by public administrations (at least in Germany). As bureaucracy is always annoying, you have to fill out the same PDF forms over and over - the most time with the same stuff.

As a system administrator, secretaries asking me often how to save PDF forms under Ubuntu. On every other operating system, I miss this feature - so Ubuntu could provide a simple, but needed feature here, that others don't provide...

The problem is, that there is really no free software. Even Adobe Reader is not able to do so. Only PDF editors (Adobe Acrobat, Cabaret and PDFEdit) are able, to manipulate the forms - the problem is, that most PDF files are so bad, that the available free PDF editors are crashing.
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Solution #1: Extend libpoppler to manipulate PDF forms
Written by xfuser4 the 17 Oct 09 at 09:16.
It should not be too hard, to extend libpoppler, so it can manipulate the content of PDF forms. For PDF files that are signed, it could store the form content in a separate file.

Changing libpoppler would provide this feature in Evince and Okular (and many other programs).

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