On 2007-10-27, User 1001 wrote:

> PDF forms designed with Windows-based Acrobat-whatever appear to be unusable
> with the Linux version of Acroread with regards to digital signatures,
> certificates, and embedded forms with "user modifiable fields". There is usually
> some message about "rights" and that the document author should be contacted.
>
> FBSD/Linux Acroread is unable to import certificates, digitally sign a PDF
> document, or process FDF(?) fields within a PDF document. This tends to severely
> limit Acroread's FBSD capabilities, and in some cases - makes it useless where
> an environment requires digital signatures in addition to filling out the
> embedded form.
>
> Are there any known solutions?

Have you tried the linux version 8.1.1 yet? I don't know if it supports
those features, but it may be worth a try.

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John (john@os2.dhs.org)

John Thompson wrote:
> On 2007-10-27, User 1001 wrote:
>
>> PDF forms designed with Windows-based Acrobat-whatever appear to be unusable
>> with the Linux version of Acroread with regards to digital signatures,
>> certificates, and embedded forms with "user modifiable fields". There is usually
>> some message about "rights" and that the document author should be contacted.
>>
>> FBSD/Linux Acroread is unable to import certificates, digitally sign a PDF
>> document, or process FDF(?) fields within a PDF document. This tends to severely
>> limit Acroread's FBSD capabilities, and in some cases - makes it useless where
>> an environment requires digital signatures in addition to filling out the
>> embedded form.
>>
>> Are there any known solutions?
>
> Have you tried the linux version 8.1.1 yet? I don't know if it supports
> those features, but it may be worth a try.

No - I don't use "straight" Linux and version 8 is not available as a port yet.

User 1001 wrote:

> PDF forms designed with Windows-based Acrobat-whatever appear to be
> unusable with the Linux version of Acroread with regards to digital
> signatures, certificates, and embedded forms with "user modifiable
> fields". There is usually some message about "rights" and that the
> document author should be contacted.
>
> FBSD/Linux Acroread is unable to import certificates, digitally sign a PDF
> document, or process FDF(?) fields within a PDF document. This tends to
> severely limit Acroread's FBSD capabilities, and in some cases - makes it
> useless where an environment requires digital signatures in addition to
> filling out the embedded form.
>
> Are there any known solutions?

don't know about 'signed' Acrobat stuff but I notice all certificates
attached to email from MS are rejected by Kmail under FBSD, I'll have to
check in Linux.
Could just be that MS certificates are not the same as GNU. Any standard as
long as it's MS etc?...


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Bill
AMD64 - FreeBSD 6.2
'The road less travelled'

On 2007-10-29, User 1001 wrote:

> John Thompson wrote:
>>
>> Have you tried the linux version 8.1.1 yet? I don't know if it supports
>> those features, but it may be worth a try.

> No - I don't use "straight" Linux and version 8 is not available as a
> port yet.

Do you have the linux emulation layer for FreeBSD? Perhaps it will run
in that.

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John (john@os2.dhs.org)