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When you open the form linked, SumatraPDF will warn that “The document uses unsupported features (XFA) and might not render properly”, and it cannot fill out th

When you open the form linked, SumatraPDF will warn that “The document uses unsupported features (XFA) and might not render properly”, and it cannot fill out the form. Perhaps it’s not XFA specifically, but some other strange technology. I did see that note about how Stallman does his taxes. But if Stallman has a sectarian objection to basic things like using a cell phone, or to even more basic non-tech things like personal hygiene, an objection to taxes wouldn’t seem far-fetched to me.

eesmith 4y ago
FWIW, https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/1249 https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/1249 ("Support form filling for at least 1040 irs form") has a comment saying "MuPDF-GL has the capability to edit fields and save the PDF" of a 1040. I have just learned the Firefox 93 added support XFA - https://techdows.com/2021/10/open-xfa-pdfs-in-firefox.html https://techdows.com/2021/10/open-xfa-pdfs-in-firefox.html . So it would appear there are free software solutions to XFA forms. Just because something doesn't seem far-fetched to you, doesn't mean most people will regard it as far-fetched. Many people all sorts of "sectarian objections" - far more than there are SovCits or other tax protesters. Stallman has never come across as a tax protester. Ergo, I think it's far-fetched that "sectarian objections" is strongly associated with tax protests. Further, at https://stallman.org/archives/2017-may-aug.html https://stallman.org/archives/2017-may-aug.html we can read Stallman opinine that we need to "return to the "bad old days", when Americans in general could have a decent life, not penury; when the US could afford to build what the public needed instead of privatizing everything with a toll" by making taxation more progressive. At https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jan-apr.html https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jan-apr.html we read he supports "The Fairness in Taxation Act [which] would raise taxes to 45% on incomes over a million dollars a year."
grapesurgeon 4y ago
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eesmith 4y ago

FWIW, https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/1249 https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues/1249 ("Support form filling for at least 1040 irs form") has a comment saying "MuPDF-GL has the capability to edit fields and save the PDF" of a 1040. I have just learned the Firefox 93 added support XFA - https://techdows.com/2021/10/open-xfa-pdfs-in-firefox.html https://techdows.com/2021/10/open-xfa-pdfs-in-firefox.html . So it would appear there are free software solutions to XFA forms. Just because something doesn't seem far-fetched to you, doesn't mean most people will regard it as far-fetched. Many people all sorts of "sectarian objections" - far more than there are SovCits or other tax protesters. Stallman has never come across as a tax protester. Ergo, I think it's far-fetched that "sectarian objections" is strongly associated with tax protests. Further, at https://stallman.org/archives/2017-may-aug.html https://stallman.org/archives/2017-may-aug.html we can read Stallman opinine that we need to "return to the "bad old days", when Americans in general could have a decent life, not penury; when the US could afford to build what the public needed instead of privatizing everything with a toll" by making taxation more progressive. At https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jan-apr.html https://stallman.org/archives/2011-jan-apr.html we read he supports "The Fairness in Taxation Act [which] would raise taxes to 45% on incomes over a million dollars a year."

grapesurgeon 4y ago

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