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Re:macOS Monterey by bombcar on Monday October 25, 2021 @10:03PM (#28995610)
The PDF format supports all sorts of insane extensions only implemented in Acrobat and only used by governments and large enterprises.
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Re:macOS Monterey by jay_kyburz on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @01:36AM (#28996768)
When I get forms like this I just dump them to jpg, fill them in an a paint program and zip them back up and send them as static images.
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Re:macOS Monterey by rcthompson on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @02:14AM (#28997004)
That doesn't work. You can't even view the PDF without Acrobat. (There's an example linked elsewhere in this thread.)
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Re:macOS Monterey by Tagbert on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @10:36PM (#29008982)
They may not be accepted by the form issuer if they have a process to pull the text out of specific fields in the PDF. I have run into that before. They are not just looking at the document but processing it.
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