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So which/how many users use Adobe Reader on Linux ?

So which/how many users use Adobe Reader on Linux ?

Posted Aug 20, 2012 8:53 UTC (Mon) by fb (subscriber, #53265)
In reply to: So which/how many users use Adobe Reader on Linux ? by shmerl
Parent article: Google warns of using Adobe Reader - particularly on Linux (The H)

If you move that PDF to some other computer, say from desktop to laptop, your edits are all gone.

Perhaps some KDE file managers are smart enough to move the metadata, but a normal shell "cp here/doc.pdf there" will certainly not.

Really a great thing to discover when you are emaling your PDFs back to your lawyer close to the tax submission deadlines.


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So which/how many users use Adobe Reader on Linux ?

Posted Aug 20, 2012 11:44 UTC (Mon) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

Yeah, "save as" does not work, but as a workaround you can print the form to another PDF after you fill the form. That second PDF will carry your data around.

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