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Re:Acrobat Reader for Linux removed by pbhjpbhj on Sunday July 27, 2014 @12:19PM (#8093141)
UK government use some PDF forms that use Acrobats digital signatures and won't work properly on anything else I've tried. Don't know why they didn't create them as web forms/apps in the first place however.
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Re:Acrobat Reader for Linux removed by robin_reala on Sunday July 27, 2014 @12:53PM (#8093241)
Not for long. As of this week the official government line is that forms should be implemented on the web rather than in PDFs.
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Re:Acrobat Reader for Linux removed by pbhjpbhj on Sunday July 27, 2014 @01:11PM (#8093289)
Any idea if PAYE real time will be rewritten to avoid using Adobe behind the scenes then?
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Re:Acrobat Reader for Linux removed by fnordfnordfnord on Sunday July 27, 2014 @01:32PM (#8093356)
>Don't know why they didn't create them as web forms/apps in the first place however.

Vendor lock-in?

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