Are you forced to buy windows in order to solve certain tasks on the internet e.g. like certain banktasks and to update garmin gps maps and other

[Robert Heller]

At Thu, 31 Jul 2014 13:58:53 -0400 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 07/31/2014 12:32 PM, Kenneth Marcy wrote:
> >
> > On 7/31/2014 8:31 AM, user1 wrote:
> >> Are you forced to buy windows in order to solve certain tasks on the
> >> internet e.g. like certain bank tasks and to update garmin gps maps etc
> >
> > National and state tax return preparation on your own computer using 
> > Linux continues to be a challenge not only in the USA but in other 
> > countries as well.
> >
> > An interesting question is whether the appropriate governmental 
> > entities should provide timely appropriate software for personal tax 
> > return preparation.  Whether that software should be created by the 
> > government entity itself, or under contract with a private 
> > organization, whether or not commercial, is an adjunct question.
> >
> >
> > Ken
> >
> >
> If your distro provides Adobe, you should be able to fill out the forms 
> from Linux.  I know that Adobe has abandoned Linux, altho I hear you can 
> still run it from Chrome
> or Chromium. I refuse to even look at either of those: I don't need 
> Google under my sc=kin the rest of my computing life!

PDFTK can also fill in forms (and can even do it *programatically* -- you can 
create a script to fill in PDF forms).  PDFTK includes a freely available 
*Linux* version of their software (including RPMs for RHEL).

http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/

Description :
If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover,
hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a simple
tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents. Keep one in the top drawer
of your desktop and use it to:

    * Merge PDF Documents
    * Split PDF Pages into a New Document
    * Decrypt Input as Necessary (Password Required)
    * Encrypt Output as Desired
    * Burst a PDF Document into Single Pages
    * Report on PDF Metrics, including Metadata and Bookmarks
    * Uncompress and Re-Compress Page Streams
    * Repair Corrupted PDF (Where Possible)


> 
> --doug
> 

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