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I have a feeling this thread has a strong bias from highly automated valley life. In more provincial regions and even just much of Europe lots of forms have to

I have a feeling this thread has a strong bias from highly automated valley life. In more provincial regions and even just much of Europe lots of forms have to be filled out and printed. It is not something you have to everyday or something, but the existing solutions suck massively. You either have to use Adobe, which requires Windows (or Mac, I suppose) and your firstborn or use some massively shady online service. So personally, I love this feature! (And I also do not think that this will halt all other development at Mozilla like some comments here imply)

boogies 6y ago
Isn’t evince capable of this and the default PDF viewer on GNOME?
- krastanov 6y ago
  I have had evince fail render forms, but okular (the KDE default) has worked pretty well.
- jhoechtl 6y ago
  Gnome - no. Okular the KDE counterpart works very fine.
- folmar 6y ago
  Works fine for me.
Jaxan 6y ago
In Mac you can fill in PDFs with the builtin Preview app. I like it.
- mkskm 6y ago
  There's also the paid app PDF Expert which is generally excellent.
- chadrs 6y ago
  And yet every time I go to my parents' they've somehow installed Adobe Reader for Mac. I've deleted that app like 6 times.
drdaeman 6y ago
Okular works on Windows. Or, at least, used to be, some years ago.
- vbarrielle 6y ago
  Tried it a few months ago, it works.
- gcarvalho 6y ago
  It's available on the Store. No need to log in to download it too. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/okular/9n41msq1wnm8?activetab=pivot:overviewtab https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/okular/9n41msq1wnm8?active...
throwaway33339 6y ago
> In more provincial regions and even just much of Europe lots of forms have to be filled out and printed. This is changing quickly with the covid pandemic. One of its silver linings is that I can't remember the last time I had to wait in line for one hour only to be told off by some exhausted bureaucrat about my missing grand-parents' birth certificate or whatever the hell they come up with. Take that, bureaucracy!

boogies 6y ago

Isn’t evince capable of this and the default PDF viewer on GNOME?

krastanov 6y ago
I have had evince fail render forms, but okular (the KDE default) has worked pretty well.
jhoechtl 6y ago
Gnome - no. Okular the KDE counterpart works very fine.
folmar 6y ago
Works fine for me.

Jaxan 6y ago

In Mac you can fill in PDFs with the builtin Preview app. I like it.

mkskm 6y ago
There's also the paid app PDF Expert which is generally excellent.
chadrs 6y ago
And yet every time I go to my parents' they've somehow installed Adobe Reader for Mac. I've deleted that app like 6 times.

drdaeman 6y ago

Okular works on Windows. Or, at least, used to be, some years ago.

vbarrielle 6y ago
Tried it a few months ago, it works.
gcarvalho 6y ago
It's available on the Store. No need to log in to download it too. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/okular/9n41msq1wnm8?activetab=pivot:overviewtab https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/okular/9n41msq1wnm8?active...

throwaway33339 6y ago

> In more provincial regions and even just much of Europe lots of forms have to be filled out and printed. This is changing quickly with the covid pandemic. One of its silver linings is that I can't remember the last time I had to wait in line for one hour only to be told off by some exhausted bureaucrat about my missing grand-parents' birth certificate or whatever the hell they come up with. Take that, bureaucracy!