On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 8:47 AM, Jiri Eischmann <eischmann@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > PDF > Many complaints about PDF support, mostly: > * Evince doesn't support non-ascii characters in PDF forms, this is a > major problem for many people. > * Some PDF forms refuse to work with anything but Acrobat Reader > although they may work just fine with Evince, faking a reader's > identity might be a solution here. > * Incomplete support for PDF 1.7. The forms problem may be a lack of XFA support. [1] On the one hand, XFA is considered proprietary and is not included in the ISO standards applying to PDF; and yet on the other hand PDF 1.7 considers XFA effectively mandatory. That's confusing. Aside from XFA, there are also limitations Evince has with XMP in PDF. A Simple-Scan document by default is PDF/A, and the creation and modification dates are wrong in Evince, related to lack of XMP support Poppler. [2] That's an unfortunate sequence, because it's good and appropriate to use PDF/A for long term preservation of documents. But then, oops, Evince can't be trusted to show the document's creation date. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFA [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781562 _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
