[poppler] Does poppler support forms?

[Alberto Cuesta]

Thanks for your replies, you are doing a good job with poppler and I 
hope we will see again in the (near) future.

Cheers,
Alberto

Albert Astals Cid escribió:
> A Divendres 11 Maig 2007, Leonard Rosenthol va escriure:
>   
>> It is not possible to legally develop an implementation of Acrobat
>> JavaScript for Forms, as there are variety of undocumented methods &
>> properties that are used automatically when a form is authored in
>> Acrobat.
>>     
>
> I'm astonished to read this sentence in a open source/free software mailing 
> list. People have written drivers for graphic cards without any information 
> of how the chip works and it is impossible to do an implementation of 
> Javascript for PDF? Come on...
>
>   
>> However, a form that is authored specifically for 
>> "baseline JavaScript" could be used with a "baseline viewer".
>>
>> Leonard
>>
>> On May 9, 2007, at 3:26 AM, alcueca wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> a client of mine wants to code an open-source pdf viewer which
>>> displays
>>> forms, allows the user to fill them, and runs JavaScript validation
>>> code on
>>> the introduced data. Is this possible with poppler?, 
>>>       
>
> No, to some degree we support displaying and in the hopefully near future 
> writing form data, but as far as i know nobody has started work on adding 
> Javascript support for that.
>
> Albert
>
>   
>>> is there any 
>>> open-source pdf viewer which already accomplishes this?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your time,
>>> Alberto
>>>       
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