[poppler] question / possible bounty - XFA support

[Nikola Ciprich]

Hello Wiliam,


thanks for you reply..

On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 05:44:49PM +0000, William Bader wrote:
> Can you try
> 
> 
> gs -dShowAcroForm odmeny.pdf

does not work..

> 
> 
> or the gs ps2pdf script
neither this..

> 
> 
> ps2pdf -dShowAcroForm odmeny.pdf odmeny2.pdf
nor this..

> 
> 
> https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695653 (Bug 695653 - Ghostscript can't read PDF XFA files)
unfortunately this TT is closed with WONTFIX :(

BR, nik

> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> William
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: poppler <poppler-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org> on behalf of Nikola Ciprich <nikola.ciprich at linuxbox.cz>
> Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2017 7:21 AM
> To: poppler at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: [poppler] question / possible bounty - XFA support
> 
> Hello dear poppler developer(s),
> 
> I'd like to ask question many times asked, but also possibly
> offering bounty for resolution..
> 
> Our customer has issue displaying one particular PDF file generated by SAP
> HR portal they use. Changing it on SAP side is not possible in reasonable
> time and due to security, as well as stability reasons, I'd really hate
> to install adobe reader just to be able to view one particular file type..
> 
> problem is, that under evince (or anything poppler based, or even other PDF
> viewers), I do not see file content properly, due to lack of XFA support.
> 
> example file can be obtained here:
> 
> http://nik.lbox.cz/download/odmeny.pdf
> 
> I also understand that XFA is not really standard and implementing support
> is certainly not easy, due to lack of documentation.
> 
> My question is, can you estimate how hard it would be to implement at least
> subset of needed functionality to be able to display such files?
> 
> If it would be possible at all, and with reasonable effort, would
> you be interested in doing it for a bounty? I mean adding support
> to poppler so it's working in evince at least then..
> 
> Or has anyone any other tips on how to deal with such file under
> linux desktop, other then using acroread?
> 
> thanks a lot in advance
> 
> with best regards
> 
> nikola ciprich
> 
> 
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