[poppler] question / possible bounty - XFA support

[William Bader]

Hi Nikola,

That is strange. It works for me on Fedora 25 with its gs 9.20 and with gs 9.21 that I built from source.

gs without -dShowAcroForm shows the template, and gs with -dShowAcroForm shows the data in the form, or is there even more data that -dShowAcroForm does not show?

gs ps2pdf flattens the form, so if you detect a PDF with XFA, you can pass it through ps2pdf, and then view the result with poppler-based tools.

Regards, William


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From: Nikola Ciprich <nikola.ciprich at linuxbox.cz>
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 3:07 AM
To: William Bader
Cc: poppler at lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [poppler] question / possible bounty - XFA support

Hello Wiliam,


thanks for you reply..

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

does not work..

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> or the gs ps2pdf script
neither this..

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

>
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> 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
>
>
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> 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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