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Re: [suse-security] Re: [suse-security-announce] SUSE Security Announcement: Acrobat Reader 5 buffer overflow (SUSE-SA:2005:042)

From: Robert Schiele (rschieleuni-mannheim.de)
Date: Mon Jul 18 2005 - 07:34:50 CDT


On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 11:44:32AM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 11:18:18AM +0200, Martin Konold wrote:
> > What is missing in kpdf?
>
> The user knowledge that it is as good.

Actually kpdf has limited feature set compared to acroread.

> I brought this up internally and lots of people still thought
> that acroread can display more documents.

Well, maybe there are no problems to _display_ PDF files, but for instance one
feature that is missing kpdf is editing fillable forms like this one:
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/kits/forms/imm0008egen.pdf

Robert

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