pdftk VS sumatrapdf

The classic way is with pdftk (the Java port sees some development, the original hasn't had a release in the last decade) along with imagemagick convert and a couple others.

It uses pdftk-java (that's what debian calls it anyway) - it's a variant that ignores password "protection" on non-encrypted files, which means I can decompress them and mess with them.

Hello people all English Let's go there in a tool called git clone https://gitlab.com/pdftk-java/pdftk Let's use this tool type this termux tool

tmx% pdftk foo.pdf dump_data InfoBegin Error: could not load a required library for this operation. java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/lang3/StringEscapeUtils Make sure that bcprov and commons-lang3 are installed and included in the classpath. See also https://gitlab.com/pdftk-java/pdftk/issues/2.

Someone has ported pdftk to Java (see https://gitlab.com/pdftk-java/pdftk) which might be usable for you.

Try using the Java port, it’s still actively supported and they have a pre built binary you can use https://gitlab.com/pdftk-java/pdftk

Or pdftk. Or Okular. There are many FLOSS options besides using the last free version of some random paid editor.

I’m curious, have you tried SumatraPDF (uses muPDF under the hood)?

https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf

Do you mind reporting those issues either to SumatraPDF at https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/issues or directly to MuPDF at https://bugs.ghostscript.com/ if it also has the same issue? Thank you!

There are many wonderfully weird PDFs and epubs out there, but we do our best to fix issues. :)

FWIW, 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 .

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 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 we read he supports "The Fairness in Taxation Act [which] would raise taxes to 45% on incomes over a million dollars a year."

link for the lazy

If you are going to run something in wine, try sumatrapdf. It's FOSS but Windows only. (sadly, but runs great on wine)

Sumatra is Adobe free, free, and can remember the page you were on.

Sumatra PDF has always been my choice: minimal, lightweight, no bloat... just perfect!