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Authored by: robg on Jan 20, '05 11:15:12AM
As much as I like the Schubert plug-in, it's missing a few nice features that Adobe's offers. The page browser is quite useful, but even more important, Adobe's plug-in handles things that Schubert won't. As an example, try the 1040 tax form.

In Schubert, you see the form with a bunch of ???? in the fields. With Adobe's plug-in, you can enter data into those fields, and save the filled-in form locally, all from your browser.

-rob.

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Authored by: tonyinsf on Jan 20, '05 12:14:14PM

Please state the version of the Schubert plug-in you are using, otherwise you do a disservice to everyone here.

I am using 2.0.1 and it has no problem with the 1040 form.

Also, I believe it has as many, if not more features as the Adobe plug-in.

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Authored by: robg on Jan 20, '05 02:14:24PM
See my other reply below; Schubert does not support PDF forms. You can fill data in, but you can't save the form with the filled-in data.

-rob.

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Authored by: prodok on Jan 21, '05 05:23:35PM

Actually, that's what you can not do with Reader (or Reader powering the browser plug-in) either, UNLESS the form has the so-called Extended Rights (which would have been applied by the creator of the form, using the Adobe Reader Extensions Server (or whatever that thingie's name du jour is...).

The 1040 tax form for 2004 does bear those extended rights, that's why you can save it with the filled in data, using Reader.



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Authored by: robg on Jan 22, '05 05:10:18PM

Right, that's what I was referring to -- the extended rights forms, not the simple ones. Sorry for any confusion.

-rob.



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Authored by: maddys_daddy on Jan 20, '05 01:18:44PM
rob, I just downloaded the most recent version of the Schuberth plugin, and it seems to have fixed (well, sort of) the issues that you're concerned with. While you can't have a page view in the sidebar, you can view a collapsible tree view of the TOC (if one exists for the file). This for me, more often than not, is much more convenient than page view. See this pdf document to see the TOC (if you have a recent version of the Schuberth plugin). Also, forms are fixed. I had no problem filling out the 1040. The only caveat is that using the "Save" or "Save as..." option won't save the filled in form data (which stinks). However, selecting Print>Save as pdf... will save a pdf with the form data filled in. The only drawback to this is that there is a header (extraneous pdf meta-data??) that appears above the 1040 page 1. Haven't tried it with any other PDF forms yet. The biggest reason I'm sticking with the Schuberth plugin is that I use Firefox pretty much exclusively, and, as far as I know, the Adobe plugin won't work in firefox.

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