On: Show HN: Tetris in a PDF

[woodrowbarlow]

i recently discovered that the Canadian government depends on this for some fillable forms, because it shows a message at the top that says "JavaScript is disabled" and all the boxes show errors. i couldn't get it to work on Linux and had to dust off a Windows machine (and it still didn't work in firefox, it needed acrobat reader).

[AlexanderTheGr8 → woodrowbarlow]

I have faced this exact problem with Canadian govt forms. Evince doesn't support them. They are so specific about only adobe acrobat to fill out the forms. I can open them in firefox but can't update them properly The only option is to use my barely hanging on 10-yr old windows machine.

Let's hope that eventually they move on to a simpler web form.

[pavon → AlexanderTheGr8]

Okular supports javascript in PDFs and works with many fillable forms.

[ikari_pl → AlexanderTheGr8]

Wait, did Acrobat actually end support for Linux? Od you just didn't want that particular machine to catch... capitalism?

[necovek → ikari_pl]

There is no recent version of Acrobat Reader for Linux, and old (was it 5.x beta?) versions rarely work on modern distros.

[ars → necovek]

Acrobat 9.5 works fine on Linux, if a little slow.

This Tetris game makes it crash though.

[necovek → ars]

Oh, thanks, that's good to hear!

Edit: only now I see that's also from 2009 with updates into 2013. Do you where one can easily download the latest patched version?

[ars → necovek]

http://www.deb-multimedia.org/dists/stable/non-free/binary-i...

[nbenitezl → necovek]

In my case I install it from flathub.org (works from any distro):

https://flathub.org/apps/com.adobe.Reader