[poppler] question / possible bounty - XFA support

Nikola Ciprich nikola.ciprich at linuxbox.cz
Tue Aug 29 07:13:42 UTC 2017


Hello Adrian,

thanks for your reply..


On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 05:00:54PM +0930, Adrian Johnson wrote:
> 
> There a bit more detail in this bug comment:
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14265#c17
yes, seems like all related tickets are either closed with
WONTFIX or similar, or are stuck without any real progress.


> 
> XFA is outside the scope of poppler as it is not part of the PDF
> standard. Any poppler support would be limited to providing a function
> to extract the embedded xml.
> 
> iText has the capability to convert an XFA PDF to an ordinary PDF. Maybe
> that could solve your problem.
> 
> http://developers.itextpdf.com/question/how-flatten-xfa-pdf-form-using-itextsharp

yes, this seems to be the best solution so far..

still I'd love to have open solution for that, even for the price
of sponsoring development of one..

BR

nik

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