SUMMARY Okular fails to display this document: https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/aia0014.pdf OBSERVED RESULT "Please wait..." message. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS FreeBSD 13.1
Works fine here (poppler 20.12.1, okular 22.08, Mageia 8).
I have poppler-22.08.0 and it doesn't work. What's wrong?
(In reply to Yuri from comment #2) > I have poppler-22.08.0 and it doesn't work. > What's wrong? The document is tailored for Adobe Reader. It cannot be shown in any other engine (poppler, FoxIt, etc.). It shows what has to be shown by design.
But you said earlier that it works in Okular for you.
(In reply to Yuri from comment #4) > But you said earlier that it works in Okular for you. I meant "It works as it should".
I think that Okular needs to have a feature similar to ability to change "User Agent" in browsers. Whatever the check in PDF is Okular should be able to either ignore it or supply a pre-defined value and be able to open any documents. P in PDF stands for portable. How come some documents aren't portable?
I haven't checked this particular case, but documents that show this warning message typically contain XFA forms. These forms are described in a document several hundred pages long, and nobody has ever had the nerve to start an open implementation.
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(In reply to Oliver Sander from comment #7) > I haven't checked this particular case, but documents that show this warning > message typically contain XFA forms. These forms are described in a document > several hundred pages long, and nobody has ever had the nerve to start an > open implementation. apparently firefox now can do that so yeah https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/10/implementing-form-filling-and-accessibility-in-the-firefox-pdf-viewer/ https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/18/firefox_106_arrives/ >Firefox has been able to display PDFs for many years, and since version 93 late last year, you can complete forms directly in the browser as well – in both AcroForms and the deprecated XFA format. That nicely obsoletes Adobe's scary warning about the older format. so now firefox can edit xfa forms, allow users to type in a name or tick a checkbox but okular cannot even display the file? yeah
(In reply to johnathan from comment #9) > so now firefox can edit xfa forms, allow users to type in a name or tick a > checkbox but okular cannot even display the file? yeah Firefox has a like 700 employees, Okular has 0. I don't see why it is surprising to you. Also XFA is basically a webpage so adding support for it in Firefox is defenitely easier than in Okular. But yes please be an asshole to us developers, that will for sure make us work for free for ungrateful people like you
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