[NTLUG:Discuss] OT: PS viewer and Acrobat Reader 9

[Stuart Johnston]

On 02/11/2011 04:01 PM, Fred James wrote:
> Stuart Johnston wrote:
>> (omissions for brevity)
>>> That would work if Acrobat 9 was not required to be able to fill in the
>>> fillable form ... only print to file option there is *.ps
>>
>> Have you tried evince for filling in the original PDF? It worked with
>> the IRS PDF I tried but if your PDFs are locked somehow, I don't know.
>>
>> Did you have any luck converting the PS file to PDF using Chris's
>> script or ps2pdf directly?
> 'evince' is (on this fillable form at least) quirky at best ...
> tab to the next field does not work
> check boxes do not work (do not fill)
> clicking on the next field can make the contents of the last field
> "disappear" ... clicking on that "disappeared" field brings the contents
> back

Checkboxes work for me with 2.32.0.  You might check and see if you can 
upgrade.