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Schubert is better
Authored by: tonyinsf on Jan 20, '05 12:27:07PM

Every thing said about the Shubert plug in is not true. It does work with FireFox. Someone said it couldn't handle a 1040 form. Wrong. It does.

Please, in the future, please state the version number of a product if you are going to talk about it in comparison to another.

There is one good thing about this article, I was using version 2.0.1 of the Schubert plug-in. I went to the site and found it has been upgraded to 2.1. I don't notice anything different, it seems to have the same features as 2.0.1, such as rotate, zoom in and show contents, etc.

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Schubert is better
Authored by: robg on Jan 20, '05 01:14:49PM

I was using version 2.0.1 of the plug-in, and the form most clearly doesn't work with that version. So I just went and downloaded 2.1, and it did seem to work, at least somewhat. The question marks are gone, and I can type in the fields.

The problem comes, though, when you want to save your filled-in form. You can't. The PDF will save, but none of the data that you enter is saved with the form. At least, I couldn't find a way to make it save the data. I tried both Save and Save As, and both ways, I get nothing but the blank PDF. The Adobe plug-in, on the other hand, saved my form data perfectly.

So, in short: there are two browser plug-ins now for Safari. That's a good thing. Pick the one you like and use it. For me personally, in Safari that's the Adobe plug-in due to forms and page previews. In all other browsers, where only Schubert works, it's Schubert.

-rob.



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