Wednesday, October 24, 2018

PDF form problems are back

Our ability to save editable pdf from our Chrome browser has gone away.  Some marketing ploy from giggle no doubt, editing pdf is a big ad revenue source for them.

But all the pdf s

Yes, folks should by software, but first, lets stop prodcing a proprietary format like PDF.services lie about it.  They lie about a bunch of stuff related to pdf.  Like they say you can save an editable pdf file until you read the fine print, you can fill our the form  and save it once; or else buy an editor for $150.  Once the IRS dumps pdf for oother optional formats, then great news for removing a big hassle with IRS forms.

Other problem.  Turbo tax, all $200 of it replaces 8 lines of a spread sheet for most taxpayers. 90% of us fill in about ten lines on a 1040, any high school kid can do that on a spreadsheet. But once the high school kid did the spreadsheet, you have to get it onto a pdf form, and that part is a big, unnecessary hassle. Dump pdf.

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